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BRANTFORD – Brantford was the first city in Canada to add fluoride to its water back in 1945 but some city councillors wonder if the practice is still necessary. “I believe in fluoride. I just don’t know if we need to do that now or not,” Ward 5 Coun. Brian Van Tilborg said at a city council […]

Ontario’s Liberal government is poised to take over the decision of adding fluoride to municipal drinking water, which could change the course of a contentious three-year-old resolution by the City of Windsor to remove the chemical from its water supply. The issue of whether or not to add fluoride in drinking water has become such a hot-button topic in municipalities like Windsor that […]

The Windsor Essex County Medical Officer of Health agrees the decision of fluoridation in water should be a provincial decision. Dr. Gary Kirk is reacting to proposed legislation that would remove the choice of adding fluoride to the drinking water supply from municipalities. Speaking on the Lynn Martin Show on AM800, Dr. Kirk says the […]

DELHI, ON – Norfolk water technicians took corrective action this weekend after a sample tested in Delhi produced an unacceptably high concentration of fluoride. Several hundred cubic metres of water were withdrawn from the town’s supply and flushed on Saturday. Technicians acted after a routine sample tested in excess of the province’s allowable limit of […]

The argument concerning water fluoridation has gone political, and does not address safety concerns at Cornwall water filtration plant, the union representing operators at the facility has said. Alan Armstrong, president of CUPE local 3251, told Seaway News in an interview Thursday the general public is missing out on a major component of the debate. […]

CORNWALL, Ontario – The argument concerning water fluoridation has gone political, and does not address safety concerns at Cornwall water filtration plant, the union representing operators at the facility has said. Alan Armstrong, president of CUPE local 3251, told Seaway News in an interview Thursday the general public is missing out on a major component of […]

Like the rest of you city council continues to be as divided as the Capulets and the Montagues when it comes to fluoridating Cornwall water.And not unlike another tragedy, it appears a razor-thin majority at the council table will vote to see fluoride returned to the water supply. I’ve railed against fluoride in our water, […]

Cornwall council members appeared Monday to reflect the general public’s feelings on whether drinking water should contain fluoride. In other words, all over the place. Some councillors want it, some don’t and others remain undecided. A pro-fluoride presentation to council that relied on the science, but also sound public policy, from local medical officer of […]

Proponents of water fluoridation said Cornwall’s overall health will suffer if the practice is abandoned. Paul Roumeliotis, the local medical officer of health, and Canada’s chief dental officer Dr. Peter Cooney, told councillors Monday too much scare mongering is taking place from critics of the practice. Cooney said one would have to drink as much […]