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Q & A: Who decides on fluoride in Calgary’s water?
Calgary has spent a lot of time mulling whether fluoride should flow through the water in city taps. And on Monday, after six plebiscites in the city’s history – the most recent in 1995, voting to keep the fluoride in – city councillor Druh Farrell will put forth a motion to lose the tooth-protectant chemical […]
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Calgary: AHS urges Calgary council to continue fluoridation
Alberta Health Services is urging aldermen not to drop fluoride from the city’s drinking water. Ald. Druh Farrell is set to present a motion on Monday calling for city council to scrap its fluoridation program and says a majority of aldermen are prepared to support her. However, AHS says the city’s two-decades-old fluoride policy is […]
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Calgary. EDITORIAL: Remove the fluoride
Calgary is once again preparing to tackle the issue of water fluoridation, one of the longest and most contentious debates in Canadian history. Advocates argue that fluoridated drinking water is a safe and effective way to reduce cavities. Opponents call it a poison and a gross infringement of individual rights. When first introduced, it was […]
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Calgary: Alderman rallies support to remove fluoride from Calgary tap water
A movement to remove fluoride from Calgary’s drinking water supply has a majority of city council behind it, the Herald has learned. The question over fluoridation of tap water has been subject to council verdicts and plebiscites repeatedly over the past five decades, including a decisive 1989 vote that finally saw the additive put into […]
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Lethbridge: Fluoride safe at present levels in water: scholar
A Fulbright Scholar from Penn State who’s visiting the University of Lethbridge says it’s OK to feel good about the city’s drinking water which is purified using state-of-the-art technology and residents need not worry about fluoridation. Fluoridation has come up in recent months as a topic of public debate, arising as an election issue this […]
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Fluoridated water poses risk, professor tells SACPA
A staunch opponent of water fluoridation presented the science behind his case Thursday during a presentation to the Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs. Numerous studies from around the world cast serious doubt on the effectiveness and safety of adding fluoride to public drinking water, said James Beck, a University of Calgary professor emeritus of […]
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Calgary: Fluoride debate bumped from agenda
The controversial debate on fluoridation of Calgary’s drinking water could have spilled onto council floor during budget deliberation, but it was immediately wiped out. The issue is not totally dry and it could very well flow back to council before the year ends or early 2011 as a notice of motion. Ald. Druh Farrell was […]
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Calgary: Much of what we fear is not scary at all
Judging by the news in recent weeks and months, it would appear as though we have no shortage of things to be fearful of. Bisphenol-A (BPA), cellphones, Wi-Fi transmitters and water fluoridation are just some of the apparent imminent dangers. How can Canadians ensure that the responses to these issues are based on conclusive scientific […]
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Okotoks: Fluoride use questioned
Fluoride applied to the surface of the teeth is good, but drinking fluoride in water is bad, insists an Okotoks resident. Florence Christophers said she would like the Town of Okotoks to stop adding fluoride to the water and she is presenting a summary of studies conducted on the health effects of drinking fluoridated water […]
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Red Deer: City fluoride levels too high?
Red Deer has asked Alberta Health Services whether it should reduce the fluoride level in the city’s drinking water based on a recommendation to Health Canada. A Health Canada panel recommended the optimum level of fluoride be lowered to 0.7 mg/L from 0.8. Edmonton has already dropped its fluoride level based on the panel’s report, […]
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