Council rejects idea to have provincial government assess costs, manage FLUORIDE in city water An attempt to get the province involved in fluoride treatment in Saint John was defeated at city council Monday night. The $177,000 annual cost to fluoridate the city’s water supply was the decisive issue in the council vote earlier this month to end the […]
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Simcoe, Delhi, Courtland: Fluoride an election ballot issue?
The pros and cons of putting fluoride in drinking water is an “extremely complex issue” that is best left off election ballots, says the head of the area’s health and social services division. “If (the question) goes forward (in this fall’s municipal election), staff would have to put a great deal of resources into educating […]
Lethbridge : Don’t trust ‘science’ of fluoridation (Letter)
I speak from painful personal experience. As Lethbridge considers its stand on water fluoridation, please be advised you should have no confidence in the integrity of the system that produced the “science” of water fluoridation. I am a biochemist involved with an experiment since 2005 on lead service lines supplying drinking water to homes in […]
Owen Sound to vote on fluoridation
Owen Sound voters will decide Oct. 27 if the city will continue to add fluoride to its drinking water. City council passed a bylaw Monday night to approve holding a plebiscite on water fluoridation as part of the upcoming municipal election. “I think that we need to put the question of fluoride in the water […]
Ottawa: Take fluoridation powers away from cities, boards of health tell province
The provincial government should take over responsibility for putting fluoride in city water supplies, Ottawa’s board of health says, joining a campaign that argues local authorities can’t be trusted to keep doing it. “We wouldn’t leave it up to municipalities to say, should we vaccinate children in this community,” said Barry Ward, a Barrie city […]
Ottawa: Public health backs water fluoridation
Public health continues to support fluoridation of city water to protect people’s smiles. The topic came up unexpectedly during an Ottawa public health board meeting Monday when members discussed a letter from the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit asking for support to have the province fund and promote community fluoridation. The health board voted 5-1 […]
Companies involved in uranium accident at Halifax port have history of shipping mishaps
Uranium hexafluoride (UF6): Two of the companies involved in the transport of a nuclear compound that was mishandled at the port of Halifax, forcing the closure of a terminal, had been implicated in previous shipping mishaps. The Fairview terminal, one of two containers processing points of the Halifax harbour, shut down for an investigation Friday […]
Prince George. Letter: One in 10 have objectionable dental flourosis
Re: Lawsuit filed over fluoridation, March 6, 2014 For the record, your above story contained one or two errors. One: Between four and 18.8 per cent have moderate dental fluorosis in fluoridated communities (1ppm), not 14 to 18%. Two: The local group opposed to fluoridation in P.G. is called Fluoride Free Prince George, not P.G. […]
Uranium hexafluoride: Radioactive scare at north-end container terminal
Uranium hexafluoride (UF6): Emergency crews were on high alert Thursday night as it was feared a container of nuclear material was leaking aboard a ship at Halifax’s north-end Ceres terminal. A hazmat team was called in at about 9:45 p.m. when a possible spill was reported at the Bayne Street terminal. “We have a leak, […]
P.G. fight in fluoridation lawsuit still on
The man who launched a class action lawsuit against the City of Prince George last week alleging damages from fluoridated water says he has reached a settlement with the City of Cranbrook over a similar action. A consent dismissal order was filed Friday at the B.C. Supreme Court’s Cranbrook registry ending the lawsuit Kevin Millership […]