Analysis of sediment samples collected from Lake Ontario in North America shows an increase in “unidentified” organic fluorine compounds in recent years. The results suggest that the “use and manufacture of fluorinated organic compounds other than known PFCAs [perfluorocarboxylates] and PFSAs [perfluoroalkane sulfonates] has diversified and increased,” writes a team from Canada, China, and Japan. […]
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Fluoridation: Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario, 2013
Honourable Kathleen Wynne Premier of Ontario Room 281 111 Wellesley St. West Toronto, ON M7A 1A1 Dear Kathleen, The Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) is pleased to submit for your review a resolution and backgrounder developed by RNAO’s Community Health Nurses Initiatives Group (CHNIG), asking that the regulations for Ontario’s Safe Drinking Water Act, […]
Group pushes for Winnipeg to stop putting fluoride in water
A group plans to petition the city to stop putting fluoride into the water in Winnipeg. They said the health benefits from fluoride are minimal and are worried about the side-effects of fluoridated water, but at least one Manitoba dentist said the group’s claims are off base. The City of Winnipeg has been putting fluoride […]
City of Cranbrook faces fluoride lawsuit
The issue of fluoride in the drinking water is still a controversial one decades after it began in North America. In Cranbrook, fluoridation began in 1967. The issue last came forward in September of 2012, when two residents — Brian Kostiuk and Brad Brehm — went before Cranbrook City Council asking for the city to […]
Church responds to diet experiments in residential schools
Earlier this week, news reports described experiments in nutrition run through two residential schools in Kenora. They included children at C.J. and St. Mary’s during the 1940’s and 1950’s. On Friday, Steve Allen from the Presbyterian Church in Canada responded to the research by Dr. Ian Mosby. “Reading his paper is chilling, and it’s really […]
AFN wants Harper to apologize for native nutrition experiments
Canada’s largest aboriginal group was to debate an emergency resolution Thursday based on a report that the federal government once conducted nutritional experiments on hungry native children and adults. The resolution at the Assembly of First Nations annual meeting in Whitehorse, Yukon, calls on the Harper government to apologize for the experiments conducted between 1942 […]
Henry Aubin: The issue of fluoridated water has resurfaced
MONTREAL — After years of obscurity, the idea of fluoridating the water supply is back. Provincial public-health officials are pressing the Parti Québécois to retreat from its 2012 election pledge to end all fluoridation of water. The PQ government’s health minister, Réjean Hébert, favours a U-turn in principle, but he says he won’t urge municipalities […]
Cornwall: Council votes to keep fluoride in our drinking water
Your drinking water will continue to have fluoride added to it. A majority of city councillors agreed with doctors, including the country’s top dentist, who continue to argue for the fluoridation of Cornwall’s water supply. Dr. Paul Roumeliotis, the local medical officer of health, was joined by Dr. Peter Cooney, chief dental officer of Canada, […]
Debate still raging over fluoride in Quebec
QUEBEC CITY – What is more refreshing on a hot sunny day than a glass of water? It’s satisfying and vital to our health. So when it comes to adding chemicals to drinking water, it’s no wonder many parents cringe. “It’s always, you know, when you add chemical stuff to the water you drink, you […]
Offensive pour la fluoration de l’eau
Québec veut que la moitié de la population boive de l’eau fluorée d’ici cinq ans Québec se lance dans une vaste offensive beaucoup plus énergique dans l’espoir de fluorer l’eau potable pour la moitié de la population d’ici cinq ans. Il s’agit d’une ultime tentative de la Direction de la santé publique qui envisage déjà, […]