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Calgary’s reasons for ending community water fluoridation doesn’t add up, experts say
In January of 2011, a motion was submitted to city council to get rid of fluoridated water in Calgary. Nine city councillors signed the motion. It stated five reasons to stop fluoridating water. The motion was passed, with little professional recommendation or community consultation. The debate over fluoridating water has long been a heated topic […]
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Opinion: Calgarians better off without toxic fluoridation
What if our medical community was wrong once again? It has happened all too often, at times taking decades before we work through and come to grips with new facts and science, and new realities. Recall fiascos like smoking for women, asbestos, mercury, BPA, thalidomide, Vioxx, and lead in gasoline and paint. In every instance, […]
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Opinion: It was a mistake to drop fluoridation in Calgary, so bring it back
Calgary Coun. Jeromy Farkas was right to say fluoridation should be reinstated. But we don’t need another plebiscite to know what Calgarians want. Two fluoridation plebiscites, in 1989 and 1998, established that Calgary wants fluoridation. For 20 years (1991-2011), people now aged eight to 28, benefited from strong teeth, good oral health and no harm. […]
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Ready for another fluoride debate in Calgary?
City councillor wants to revisit divisive issue of water fluoridation that’s been subject to five plebiscites It’s the debate Calgary seems doomed to have over and over. There have been five votes on the issue. The first three were rejected by voters, but the last two were approved, and in the fifth plebiscite in 1998, […]
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Dentists and health experts hold meeting about the fluoridation of Calgary’s drinking water
Dozens of concerned Calgarians gathered on Saturday afternoon for a discussion about the pros and cons of adding fluoride back into the city’s water system. The city stopped the practice of adding fluoride to drinking water back in 2011 because the government stated that any advantage fluoridated water has would be negligible because of the […]
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Calgary: Oct 27 Info session on water fluoridation
UCalgary FamMedicine? @UCalgaryFamMed This Sat Oct 27, catch DFM’s Dr. Jim Dickinson and other health experts at at Knox United Church in #yyc for an info session on Water Fluoridation. Free Dental Screenings for Kids. 11am-1pm. http://www.fluoridation.care #fluoride #healthykids #publichealth 9:59 AM – 23 Oct 2018 *Online at https://twitter.com/UCalgaryFamMed/status/1054779419179462656 Print PDF
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Council has history of ignoring plebiscites
Re: Plebiscite more useful if definitive; Minister of Culture and tourism says clear result makes decision easier, Sept. 13 In voting for an Olympic plebiscite, city councillors say that it is important to follow the will of the people. But after Calgary residents approved fluoridation in two plebiscites, 10 city councillors overturned the will of […]
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Calgary (Letter): Fluoride’s effectiveness isn’t certain
Re: “Children’s teeth are paying price for cancellation of fluoridation,” Opinion, June 22. The opinion piece stating that cessation of fluoridation has caused dental disease in Calgary is misleading. The content deals mostly with two particular cases that are shocking. But there is no evidence that the harm is a result of a lack of […]
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Question of the Day: Do you think Calgary’s drinking water should be fluorinated?
The decision to remove fluoride from Calgary’s drinking water has long been a point of debate. The discussions were reignited this weekend after two dentists, an orthodontist and a bioethicist wrote an opinion piece in the Calgary Herald claiming the absence of fluoride is having “devastating consequences.” “It is time to recognize what we see every […]
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11 ways University of Calgary researchers are shaping Canadians’ health care future
Excerpt: Changing the patient-physician dynamic, empowering Indigenous communities, weaning arthritis patients off drugs, and filling the gaps in municipal water fluoridation knowledge: These are just some of the society-defining health initiatives researchers with the University of Calgary’s O’Brien Institute for Public Health at the Cumming School of Medicine (CSM) is tackling with the support of […]
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