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A committee of Owen Sound council is recommending holding a public meeting on the city’s practice of adding fluoride to its drinking water. Coun. Bill Twaddle, chairman of the operations advisory committee, said the city has heard from people on both sides of the debate and is interested in learning the “current thinking” on the […]

I have enormous respect for Dr. Hardy Limeback. I think he’s a national treasure. I lived in Alliston from 1967-71 and graduated from Banting High. My father passed away in Stevenson under the compassionate care of my former classmates. I have had an emotional reaction to what is going on with the fluoride debate. I […]

Before voting on the motion last night to end a 40 year practice of fluoridating the Tottenham water supply, which passed 7-3, New Tecumseth councillors approved holding a plebiscite during the next municipal election (October 2014), which will ask voters in Alliston, Beeton, and Tottenham whether they want fluoride added to the town-wide urban supply. […]

Before New Tecumseth councillors carry out a final vote on whether or not to fluoridate Tottenham’s drinking water, I would like to provide my expert opinion. I served 3.5 years on the US National Academies of Sciences Subcommittee on Fluoride in Drinking Water (also called the NRC Committee). The NAS is sometimes referred to as […]

Thank you New Tecumseth Council for moving forward on the cessation of fluoridation issue. As a water quality teaching master for the past 35 years, I’ve spent the last 10 righting the wrongs about the water fluoridation myth that I had condoned for the previous 25. Since my active involvement, I, along with others have […]

New Tecumseth council is once again amid its annual debate about whether or not to remove fluoride from Tottenham’s water supply. Since 1973 fluoride has been added into the community’s water. Local dentist Dr. Gerry Ross was the catalyst and still stands by his decision 40 years later, saying it’s his greatest accomplishment and a […]

A handful of district councillors tried unsuccessfully to silence anti-fluoridation lobbyists. District of Muskoka council was torn about hearing another presentation against municipal water fluoridation, but it eventually decided on Monday, Sept. 16, that it would allow a delegation on the subject at its October meeting. Georgian Bay coun. Paul Wianko argued against hearing the […]

On Monday, Sept. 23, Committee of the Whole Council of the Town of New Tecumseth voted to submit application to discontinue community water fluoridation (CWF) in the town of Tottenham. As the Medical Officer of Health for Simcoe and Muskoka, I encourage council to reconsider this decision when it meets again on Sept. 30 to […]

Tottenham is one of the only municipalities in our area to add fluoride to its drinking water, but that could soon change after a recent decision by local councillors to end the 40 year practice. “This stuff has lead, arsenic, cadmium, radium,” says Coun. Jim Stone, “like you could glow in the dark if you […]