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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 Several hundred cubic metres of water were withdrawn from the town’s supply and flushed on Saturday.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 […]

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, […]