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Excerpt: Gatineau Councillor Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin is using his Facebook site to advocate fluoridation of the city’s water supply — while many of his colleagues reject the idea despite widespread evidence that it prevents tooth decay… Click here to read full article

The Quebec government is hoping Gatineau will agree to put fluoride in its water supply, and is even willing to pay for it, but it could wait a long time for city leaders to agree. Denise Laferrière, a Hull sector councillor and president of the city’s Ville en Santé advisory commission said last week that […]

Since Sept. 17, the City of Dorval has fluoride back in its drinking water. After having fluoride in its water for 50 years, the municipality had to stop adding it in 2003 because its installations had become obsolete. At the time, the Borough of Dorval/L’Île-Dorval had repeatedly requested financial assistance to upgrade the installations. At […]

The City of Dorval has resumed water fluoridation after a five-year hiatus. Mayor Edgar Rouleau said it was time to act on the matter since he had been receiving a lot of requests from citizens concerned about their children’s dental health. “Demand from the citizens was high. The statistics show kids have less cavities when […]

While Health Canada is implementing the recommendation of an independent expert panel to reduce the amount of fluoride it urges municipalities to put in drinkable water to 0.7 parts per million, the City of Pointe Claire is already ahead of the pack. “We’ve been doing that for years,” Mayor Bill McMurchie told The Chronicle. He […]

A panel of experts commissioned by Health Canada says fluoride levels in everything from water to the amount of toothpaste used, should be lowered to protect children’s health from over-exposure. The panel is recommending reduced fluoride exposure because it’s worried children might be getting too much of the chemical from diet, water and toothpaste, leading […]

FAN Bulletin 946: VICTORY in Quebec confirmed! March 27, 2008 After the council of Quebec City issued its intention last year to end fluoridation on April 1, 2008, promoters of fluoridation in government went into action and lobbied to get them to change their mind. Despite these efforts, and those by a newly elected mayor […]

A Côte St. Luc environmentalist has warned Mayor Anthony Housefather that he better do his homework before taking any serious steps towards having fluoride injected into Côte St. Luc’s drinking water. Last week during Côte St. Luc city council’s monthly sitting, Marsha Akman, a Macdonald Avenue resident, reacted to a news story published in the […]

A Côte St. Luc woman who wants city council to pass a resolution calling for the local public water supply to have fluoride added has won the support of Mayor Anthony Housefather. “You certainly laid out good reasons why fluoridation should occur in the water system and I personally support it,” said Housefather, after listening […]

A couple of West Island water filtration plants will soon undergo some major renovations. Dorval has opened tenders submitted by last Friday’s deadline to build an extension for its new fluoride system as well as to install new equipment. Dorval Mayor Edgar Rouleau expects the winning bidder will be given the green light to start […]