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The Bligh years: a government prepares to be judged
Excerpts: Fluoridating the water supply was one of Anna Bligh’s first major moves as premier. Fluoride, economic upheaval, cost complaints, disaster and triumph – Anna Bligh’s 4½ years as Queensland premier has had its ups and downs. Ms Bligh – who admits she faces the fight of her political life to fend off the resurgent […]
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Pinellas Park wisely moves to fluoridate (Editorial)
Count the 49,000 residents of Pinellas Park well served by their City Council members, who on Tuesday night unanimously rejected the irrational fears of a small minority and ensured the city will once again have the medical benefits of fluoridated water. Pinellas Park was put in this spot by four shortsighted members of the Pinellas […]
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Orillia: MOH wants fluoride in water
The region’s health unit is girding for opposition to its proposal to fluoridate Orillia’s drinking water. “We expect a dedicated opposition,” said Dr. Charles Gardner, medical officer of health. The health unit’s push for fluoridation is being driven by a study that shows Orillia children have the highest rates of decayed, missing, extracted, or filled […]
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London: Fluoride debate rages on
Fluoridation of the city’s water supply is either a safe and inexpensive technique to improve people’s health or is an insulting way of eliminating personal freedom of choice. Despite hours of “he said, she said” conversations, those were the two fundamental issues that came forward during a Civic Works Committee meeting at Centennial Hall that […]
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London: Opinions mixed on fluoride
About 150 people turned out to a marathon public-input session on whether the city should keep adding fluoride to drinking water. Council’s civic works committee heard from people on both sides of the issue at Centennial Hall. While public health officials are in favour of continuing to use the additive as a low-cost way to […]
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London: Opinions mixed on fluoride
About 150 people turned out to a marathon public-input session on whether the city should keep adding fluoride to drinking water. Council’s civic works committee heard from people on both sides of the issue at Centennial Hall. While public health officials are in favour of continuing to use the additive as a low-cost way to […]
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Wired report examines fluoride effort that started in Grand Rapids
GRAND RAPIDS — Our city became the first in the country to add fluoride to its municipal water system 67 years ago today, a public health triumph quickly duplicated elsewhere despite Cold War hysteria that fluoridation was part of a communist plot to poison the water supply. Today, more than two-thirds of public water systems […]
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Pinellas Park: Fluoride to go back in city water
PINELLAS PARK – After hearing arguments from both sides Jan. 24, the Pinellas Park City Council unanimously agreed that fluoride should be added back to city water. The city will be applying for state funding to help cover the capital expenditure and could begin building the new infrastructure at its water pumping stations in July. […]
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Canadian beauty queen does good deeds in India
TORONTO – Denise Garrido proved there’s nothing superficial about wearing a beauty pageant crown. Garrido, who held the titles of Miss World Canada 2010 and Miss Earth Canada 2008, travelled to India in November on a mission to help poor children living in that country’s slums as part of the Healthy Kids, Happy Kids foundation. […]
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Tecumseh: Fluoride debate deferred
TECUMSEH, Ont. — Council deferred Tuesday a decision over whether to ask the City of Windsor to stop fluoridation of the drinking water it buys from the city. A large contingent of residents, including a group called “fluoride free Windsor,” urged councillors to demand drinking water without fluoride. Council seemed torn on the issue. Mayor […]
Canada, Ontario