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Natural fluoride levels in Ridgetown water supply exceed acceptable levels
Ridgetown residents who rely on well water should have their supply analyzed to check fluoride levels. (Tina MacKenzie/CBC) Flouride levels exceeded 1.5 parts per million Ridgetown residents have been warned about the level of naturally occurring fluoride in the community’s water supply. According to Chatham-Kent officials, Ridgetown’s water supply was found to contain levels of […]
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Jarvis: No time to wait for safe injection site
“The report is deeply concerning to us,” Windsor and Essex County’s top public health official, Dr. Wajid Ahmed, said last year. “This should be alarming to our community,” the medical officer of health said again, six months later. “We need to accept as a community that we have a problem…,” he said before addressing city […]
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CBC Radio responds to complaint: Fuss over Fluoride
The complainant, Jack Locke, thought that a story on the World at Six took sides in a running controversy over adding fluoride to drinking water. As a long-time opponent of fluoridation, he found that hard to swallow. COMPLAINT You found fault with a radio story which ran on the January 23rd edition of The World […]
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Reader letter: Some people are more affected by fluoride
Re: The fluoride debate: ‘I know what I saw,’ by Anne Jarvis, March 1. As an environmentalist, organic farmer and believer of informed consent, I have several reasons for opposing fluoridation chemicals in drinking water but after reading Anne Jarvis’ opinion piece about dental anecdotes I thought it important that the public know the reality […]
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Adding fluoride to Windsor water supply may take 18 months
It may take up to 18 months before residents in Windsor, Tecumseh and LaSalle have fluoride in their drinking water. On Tuesday, Tecumseh council approved re-fluoridation. Windsor’s council unanimously approved its bylaw in March but needed either Tecumseh or LaSalle to approve the initiative since the neighbouring communities share the city’s drinking water supply. The […]
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Fluoride returning to Windsor’s water supply
Fluoride will soon return to the water supply for residents of Windsor, Tecumseh and LaSalle. Tecumseh council voted in favour of the move Tuesday night, and after Windsor council approved re-fluoridation – the plan will now move forward. Since Tecumseh and LaSalle share the city’s water supply, Windsor needed at least one of the two […]
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Fluoride in Tecumseh’s water may spark lawsuit
The Town of Tecumseh has approved adding fluoride to its drinking water. Tecumseh Councillor Andrew Dowie tweeted Tuesday night that all members of Tecumseh Council present at their meeting supported the reintroduction of fluoride. He said Councillor Tanya Jobin advised in advance that she opposed restoring fluoride. “The majority of feedback received from Tecumseh residents […]
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Fluoride coming back into Windsor’s water, after Tecumseh’s yes vote
Windsor’s mayor says it could take up to a year before fluoride is put back into the water Tecumseh Mayor Gary McNamara says he based his decision to support fluoridation in science, and says he’s proud of council. (Katerina Georgieva/CBC) The Town of Tecumseh has voted in favour of reintroducing fluoride to the water […]
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Fluoride formally approved by Windsor city council
Windsor will seek approval from LaSalle and Tecumseh to put fluoride back in water supply Windsor will now formally seek approval from the other municipalities that share its water supply. (Colleen Connors/CBC) Fluoride has been approved to go back into Windsor’s water. Again. As a procedural step in the process, city council unanimously passed a […]
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Windsor council sticks with decision to reintroduce fluoride in drinking water
Windsor’s council unanimously backed putting fluoride back into the city’s drinking water Monday night by introducing a new bylaw, which was largely a procedural step. But it didn’t stop many residents from making a last ditch effort to stop water fluoridation. “I urge you to be forward thinking and to consider the gravity of passing […]
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