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Fort Town residents will likely be asked come election time whether they continue to want fluoride added to their drinking water. Council took the first step Monday night toward a referendum on the issue when it agreed to hold a public meeting presenting both the pros and cons of water fluoridation. The date hasn’t been […]

The fluoridation of Prescott’s drinking water could become an issue for a referendum due to a faulty regulator. Whether the town should continue to put fluoride in its water as it has for four decades became a topic when the cost of replacing a fluoride regulator was announced at a Monday night budget session. “I […]

Halton Region will have to take the lead in the fluoridation of Milton water after Town council refused to open the can of worms. Councillor Rick Malboeuf brought forward a motion Monday that would’ve seen council declare its support for fluoridation. But the motion was withdrawn after several councillors said they had no interest in […]

People in a small Northern Ontario community have voted overwhelmingly to stop adding fluoride to the town’s drinking water due to health concerns. Residents of Cobalt, a community of 1,250 people 135 kilometres northwest of North Bay, voted last Tuesday against fluoridation. The practice was rejected by 140 of the 159 people who cast a […]

On Wednesday, the small northern Ontario town of Cobalt voted overwhelmingly to become the first community in Canada’s largest province to turn back the clock on nearly four decades of public drinking water fluoridation in Ontario. “The turnout was disappointing,” said town councillor Vic Legault, who campaigned almost alone for 180 days to force a […]

Having previously rejected the formal 1999 recommendations of a team comprised of Dr. Hardy Limeback, (the late) Dr. John Yiamouyiannis and nutritionist Janet Budgell, to lower the fluoride levels, the Mississauga city council has since “quietly” reduced their fluoridation level from 1.0 parts per million (ppm) to 0.6ppm — a full 40 per cent drop. […]

The Province of Ontario, Canada has decided to lower the levels of fluoride added to water via fluoridation programs. The decision, dated September 20, 2000, lowers the recommended level of fluoride in water from 1.0 to 1.2 parts per million to 0.5 to 0.8 parts per million. While the initial proposal was to lower the […]

The City of Toronto has been ‘selling’ the drug Fluoride to its residents (by means of providing treated warter to each residence and charging a fee to the owner) without a drug number, as is required by federal law. This is a proposal for an ‘information insert’ to be issued with every City of Toronto […]