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Calgarians supported adding fluoride to drinking water in October plebiscite Calgary will reintroduce fluoride to its tap water after city council voted overwhelmingly in favour of the change Monday. The vote wasn’t close, as 13 members of council voted in favour. Two councillors voted against the motion to reinstate fluoride: Andre Chabot of Ward 10 and Dan McLean of Ward 13. […]

CALGARY – Calgary council has voted 13-2 in favour of returning fluoride to the city’s water supply. The move at Monday’s regular council meeting follows a ‘yes’ vote in a plebiscite held during the municipal election in October. Only Coun. Andre Chabot and Coun. Dan McLean voted against the measure on Monday. Calgary stopped adding […]

City council will decide next week whether to end the decade-long hiatus on fluoridation in Calgary’s drinking water. After 62 per cent of the votes in this year’s municipal plebiscite on fluoridation favoured the practice, city officials have recommended that council approve its return. If council gives the go-ahead, the city will still have to […]

The process to add fluoride could take between 18 and 24 months, administration said Calgary city councillors could decide on moving ahead with the addition of fluoride into Calgary’s water supply at Monday’s combined meeting of council. An administration report is recommending that council direct administration to begin the process. The matter was voted on […]

During municipal elections, City of Calgary voters were presented with the question of whether or not they supported adding fluoride into drinking water. Out of 334,888 votes collected on the question, 62 per cent supported the proposal. Airdrie receives all of its drinking water from Calgary, so a reintroduction of fluoride in Calgary would ultimately […]

With so much of the councillors-elect in favour of either water fluoridation or abiding by Monday’s vote, a notice of motion will likely come forward sooner than later, said Ward 9’s Gian-Carlo Carra City council will likely move quickly to ratify results of Monday’s plebiscite that favoured returning fluoride to Calgary’s water, say some newly […]

Even though Airdrie did not vote on the question of fluoride, Calgary did (Photo by Anna Ferensowicz) On October 18th, 2021, Calgary voters voted on the city’s seventh plebiscite regarding adding fluoride back into the city’s water supply. As of  11:33 P.M. on October 18th, 62 per cent of (201,940) voters voted “Yes” with regards […]

Calgarians have voted in favour of reintroducing fluoride into the city’s drinking water. Voters were polled on the issue for the seventh time in the city’s history during Monday night’s election. The question on this year’s ballot read: “Are you in favour of reintroducing fluoridation of the municipal water supply? Yes or no.” Unofficial results as […]

The Calgary Herald asked each of the candidates several questions, including their position on fluoridation, which we have listed below. We will continue to add candidates to this list as their questionnaires are published.   Date Published Candidate in 2021 Office Fluoridation position Oct 7 Ian Chiang   Mayor AGAINST FLUORIDATION “I oppose the introduction […]

Excerpt 4. Fluoride in drinking water In February, council voted 10-4 to include a non-binding plebiscite on the municipal election ballot on fluoride. The question will be: “Are you in favour of reintroducing fluoridation of the municipal water supply?” There have been 60 years of debate on the issue and six votes between 1957 and […]