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Should West Island continue fluoridation?
Saying fluoride is available in so many ways today, Dorval borough chairman Peter Yeomans would like a study to see if it should be taken out of the West Island’s drinking water supply. “I’m not saying that it should be taken out,” Yeomans said, “but fluoride is so readily available these days that it seems […]
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Troubled Waters: Danger on Tap?
Canada’s water is safe. Even most environmentalists agree. But many experts caution against consuming too much water from the faucet. Bacteria are not a worry with our heavily chlorinated municipal water. So what’s the problem? Sewage treatment plants release heavy metals (cadmium, chromium, copper, mercury, lead and zinc) directly into lakes and rivers from which […]
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Cobalt Rejects Fluoridation
People in a small Northern Ontario community have voted overwhelmingly to stop adding fluoride to the town’s drinking water due to health concerns. Residents of Cobalt, a community of 1,250 people 135 kilometres northwest of North Bay, voted last Tuesday against fluoridation. The practice was rejected by 140 of the 159 people who cast a […]
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Small Ontario town turns tide on 40 Years of Fluoridation
On Wednesday, the small northern Ontario town of Cobalt voted overwhelmingly to become the first community in Canada’s largest province to turn back the clock on nearly four decades of public drinking water fluoridation in Ontario. “The turnout was disappointing,” said town councillor Vic Legault, who campaigned almost alone for 180 days to force a […]
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Kamloops Votes to Remove Fluoride from Water
On Saturday 10/13/01 the City of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada (37% voter turnout) voted to stop fluoridation by 63%. Kamloops, in the interior of the province, has a population of about 90,000 and had been fluoridated since 1961. Much of the credit has to be given to Marcelle Leibel. This lady never gave up the […]
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Nobel laureate opposes fluoride
BRITISH COLUMBIA: As Kamloops prepares for a referendum on fluoridation, a world-famous doctor has expressed strong opposition to water fluoridation. “I would advise against fluoridation. Individual prophylaxis (treatment) is preferable on principle grounds and is as equally effective,” says Dr. Arvid Carlsson of Sweden, co-winner of last year’s Nobel Prize for medicine. Carlsson was awarded […]
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Montreal targeted with Fluoridation Plan
MONTREAL – Almost one in two children entering kindergarten in Quebec has cavity-ridden teeth, according to a public health study released yesterday. The number is twice that of Ontario children, according to researchers. Dr. Jean-Marc Brodeur, the study’s author, said ignoring problems with children’s teeth was storing up trouble for the future. “The population certainly […]
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Calgary citizens group campaigning to rid water supply of fluoride
A grassroots group of citizens has begun a campaign to rid the water supply of fluoride. Patriots on Guard hope to deliver 14,000 flyers weekly to draw attention to the fluoridation issue, provided they can enlist volunteers and donations. “It’s wrong to impose poison on people,” says spokesman Fred Kyburz. The group has conducted previous […]
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Canadian Government Report Questions Value of Water Fluoridation
HICKSVILLE, N.Y., April 23 /PRNewswire/ — Fluoridation probably does more damage than good, says a Canadian government report. The best solution is to cease fluoridation, the author suggests. Dr. David Locker, a University of Toronto dentistry professor, reports “No Canadian studies provide evidence that water fluoridation is effective in reducing (tooth) decay in contemporary child […]
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Cavities not increasing – but decreasing – when fluoridation stops
The latest study to show that cavities do not increase when a community stops fluoridating its water, has been published in the February issue of the journal Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology. According to the authors of the study, who compared the cavity rates of two communities in British Columbia, Canada: “The prevalence of caries […]
Canada, National