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Grande Prairie: City considers eliminating fluoride in drinking water
The city is again considering whether or not to remove fluoride in municipal drinking water. In May 2014, city council was approached by Tiffany Giesbrecht who submitted 1,232 signatures asking the municipality to look into the health benefits of having fluoride in the city’s drinking water. The committee of the whole met on Oct. 23 […]
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Grande Prairie: City Council to discuss fluoride
The fluoride in Grande Prairie’s water will be addressed today. Last spring concerns were brought forward to city council about water fluoridation and possible health implications. This afternoon, council will be asked what they would like the next steps to be on the issue, if research and a report should be done, is public feedback […]
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Town of St. Paul opts to continue fluoridation
After much thinking and debate, and getting feedback from residents on their thoughts on fluoridation, Town of St. Paul council decided to continue adding fluoride to drinking water supplies. In July, the Town of St. Paul council heard from its water treatment plant manager, Bert Pruneau, who suggested that other communities were stopping the practice […]
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Okotoks: Fluoride debate returns
Aberta Health Services is pushing to bring fluoride back to the Okotoks water supply, but town councillors are asking for more information before they make a decision. Drinking water in Okotoks has been fluoride-free since 2012, when Council chose to redirect the $8,000 it cost to fluoridate toward a preschool oral health program. In a […]
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Hinton: Issues surface over fluoridation of water
Since 2011, the water fluoridation system has been fluctuating between normal and less than optimal levels. Town manager, Mike Schwirtz, says an engineer has been working to solve the issue. Town manager, Mike Schwirtz, said in an interview that they’ve been doing everything in their power to get fluoride levels in the water up to […]
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Town of Fairview: Anti-fluoridation voice heard from leading up to plebiscite
Fluoridation began in 1945 with four trials which did not show that fluoridation prevents cavities. Since then no credible study of fluoridation as a preventive of cavities has indicated that it is effective. As shown in data collected by the World Health Organization from the early 1960s to 2004 the prevalence of cavities in children […]
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Lethbridge: Fluoride issue before council again
Activist speaks to environment committee It’s a debate that goes back to the 1970s. But once again on Thursday, city council members heard competing views on the value of fluoridated water. Three members of council’s environment committee listened to a lengthy presentation by anti-fluoride activist Paul Connett, a retired chemistry professor from Canton, New York. […]
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Alberta Health Services pushing fluoridation in Okotoks
With the Town of Okotoks’ three-year preschool oral health care program now complete, Alberta Health Services is urging the Town to keep oral health in mind. The Town was in a three-year agreement with the Okotoks Primary Care Network to work with AHS to provide free oral health clinics for young children aged 12-35 months. […]
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Town of St. Paul: Fluoridation flounders
On the surface, it seems like a simple decision to make. Why add fluoride to drinking water supplies? It is a toxic chemical, dangerous to work with, costly to add, and widely available elsewhere, in toothpaste, mouthwashes and food and drink prepared with fluoridated water. Add in the concerns of fluoride opponents that this addition […]
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Lac La Biche: County Council, Alberta Health Services discuss merits of fluoridating drinking water
For 40 years, fluoride has been added to the Lac La Biche community’s treated drinking water, but County Council is still considering joining half of the municipalities in Alberta in putting an end to fluoridation. “We’re basically gathering as much information as we can,” said Mayor Omer Moghrabi. “Just over 50 per cent of the […]
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