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Cornwall’s drinking water will remain fluoride free. A motion from Coun. Andre Rivette, that specifically asked council members if they were in favour of water fluoridation ended in a 5-5 tie. Mayor Leslie O’Shaughnessy interpreted the move as the discontinuation of fluoridation in city water, though some city councillors are disputing that suggestion. The problem lies […]

Cornwall residents won’t be ingesting fluoride through their tap water. After a drawn out debate, a motion from Coun. Andre Rivette to “continue” fluoridation did not pass after a deadlocked, recorded 5-5 vote. Rivette got support from councillors Denis Carr, Bernadette Clement, Elaine MacDonald and Mark MacDonald. Opposing the motion were councillors Claude McIntosh, Maurice […]

Windsor council’s vote to remove fluoride from the city’s drinking water in 2013 was courageous and intelligent. Any effort by the province to reverse that decision should be rejected. The recent water crisis in Flint has produced one positive effect. The public knows now to question whether our drinking water is safe. And, reliance upon […]

I think our council is weak to consider passing on the decision of whether or not to fluoridate Windsor’s water to, of all places, the Ontario Liberal government. Drew Dilkens and Percy Hatfield, I was at those council meetings back in 2013 and heard what you heard. Who’s now pressuring you to unlearn what you knew […]

City councillors will debate three options for fluoridating Cornwall’s water at a meeting next week. The options include voting to spend at least $350,000 on upgrades at the water filtration plant that will allow for the return of hydrofluorosilicic acid (the active ingredient that creates fluoride), do no repairs at all or referring the matter […]

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 […]