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Bottled Water Cited as Contributing to Cavity Comeback
TORONTO, Sept. 19-Tooth decay is making a comeback, fueled by junk food, spurred by social changes, and abetted by an unusual culprit – bottled water. “I had a three-year-old kid come in the other day,” says Toronto dentist Sheldon Rose, D.D.S., “and he had at least two cavities that I could see. I haven’t seen […]
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Whistle-blowers to be honoured on Monday
OTTAWA — They took a stand and they paid the price. Some of Canada’s best-known whistle-blowers will receive awards Monday for their work defending the public interest, but there won’t likely be any glee at this ceremony. Most of the nominees have suffered severe career damage, some are in financial distress, and one has died […]
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Fluoride program opposed
Forty years after fluoride was first added to local drinking water, the municipality of Lambton Shores wants it removed. “We’re not happy we’re forced to be medicated en masse,” says Paul Turnbull, Lambton Shores’ director of community services. “A buildup of fluoride can be toxic,” he said. “It’s an imposition on my rights.” Fluoride, a […]
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Alcoa, partners find use for hazardous waste
Alcoa, Nova Pb and St. Lawrence Cement have pooled their expertise and developed a way to turn the aluminum company’s hazardous waste into a non-toxic product that improves cement. Pot-liner, the residue produced during the smelting of primary aluminum, is dangerous stuff, containing cyanide and fluoride. It has been banned from most landfill sites for […]
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The fluoride debate: necessary good or outdated practice?
Melfort Journal — Fluoride. For over 40 years, the residents of Melfort have been receiving their daily dose of the element with every glass of water we drink and with every meal we prepare. According to the city, it has been added in to the water somewhere around 1960 and before 1965, but nobody has […]
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Fairview may opt to drop fluoride
Fairview may be looking at rinsing out the fluoride in their water. The town of over 3,000 about 115 km north of Grande Prairie is looking at holding a plebiscite this fall to stop water fluoridation. “Maybe the time has come after 50 years that we should take a look at it again whether we […]
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Fairview considers ending fluoridation program
Superindentant of public works Gary Leathem asked council to consider a plebiscite on whether the town should continue to put fluoride into the drinking water. Although some fluoride is good for protecting people’s teeth, Leathem said, recent studies show too much fluoride is bad for bone strength. The cost of the fluoride itself is low […]
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Fluoride: the debate goes on
Consider this. If we as physicians were to prescribe to patients we know nothing about, a medically active, unproven drug at uncontrolled dosage and tell them to take as much as they want for the rest of their lives while not monitoring the side effects, how long would we be practising medicine before our licences […]
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Renfrew firm named No. 3 water polluter
Magellan Aerospace Corp.’s Haley Industries division at Haley Station, west of Renfrew, has been named one of the three worst water polluters on Ontario by the Sierra Legal Defence Fund. The Renfrew County company, which is one of Canada’s largest aircraft component manufacturers, was included in a list of “Ontario’s Dirty Dozen Polluters” released yesterday. […]
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Emotional week for area residents
Residents made their closing, but definitely not the last remarks in a week-long hearing on what life is like in a neighborhood of ‘astronomical changes’ last week. “It was incredibly emotional,” recalled Cheryl Henkelman, a resident who was the first of nine from the northeast Strathcona County area, perusing a statement to a panel of […]
Canada, Alberta Phosphate Industry