The medical officers of health across Ontario are pushing hard to add fluoride to municipal water and companies that supply fluoride chemicals will certainly make a profit. One Ontario MPP even wants to mandate compulsory municipal water fluoridation across Ontario. Except that citizens who want fluoride free water have severalContinue Reading
A news item appeared on Feb 19 that Cornwall City Councillor Andre Rivette wants fluoride reintroduced into Cornwall municipal water, citing comments from the medical officer of health that fluoride-free Calgary recorded an increase in childhood dental cavities. The news media reported that University of Calgary recently conducted a studyContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Council decides whether accept a report from management and decide on September 22, 2014 to foot the bill and add fluoride to our drinking water or not. With the new treatment plant upgrade costs could be steep while many in the public are demanding an end toContinue Reading
CFN – A member of Cornwall City Council recently released information that the City of Cornwall had temporarily suspended the addition of fluoride to the municipal water. Without public knowledge, the situation that had been ongoing for 2-months, the result of problems related to the storage of the hydrofluorosilicic acidContinue Reading
CFN – A determined group of protesters filled petition sheets in front of City Hall in Cornwall Ontario. After being rebuffed once, Liz Leduc and her team have starting a petition that can be signed across Cornwall and the area. I shot some video of the group trying toContinue Reading
CFN – Liz Leduc was peddling her bike all over Cornwall this weekend getting people to sign the petition to ask the City of Cornwall to stop adding fluoride to its drinking water. Fluoride Free Cornwall will be gathering signatures for a petition to end water fluoridation outside of cityContinue Reading
During the regular meeting of Monday December 10, Cornwall City Council voted to defer making a decision on the future of adding flouride to the city’s municipal water. Councillor Bernadette Clement has asked for more information about hydrofluorosilic acid, the compund that is added to the municipal water. She also queriedContinue Reading
Back in September, Paul Brisebois from Fluoride Free Cornwall appeared before Cornwall CIty Council asking that the City terminate the practive of adding fluoride to the city’s municipal drinking water. In response, Cornwall city administration has invited the head of the EOHU to present his response at the Cornwall City CouncilContinue Reading
In recent weeks, the local Cornwall media has carried several news items that relate to cancer. In 1995, Health Canada released a study that indicated that Cornwall had a higher rate of cancer that industrial cities such as Hamilton, Windsor and Sarnia. A story very recently came to public attentionContinue Reading
With dreams of Santa on the way, children are getting excited. I went on line to learn about how this Santa Claus legend first began. It is traced to a benevolent monk born in Patara, near Myra in modern day Turkey, about 270 AD, Saint Nicholas, a fourth century ChristianContinue Reading
CFN – Ageism. It’s wrong; but sometimes there can be grains of truth in cliches. Sadly Cornwall Council voted to keep Fluoride in our drinking water. Fluoride is poison; but of course many poisons have been used as medicine. In this case many municipalities and regions around theContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – The Counties of SD&G and the City of Cornwall are essentially waving their dirty laundry around as they duke it out in public over their shared services issues. Essentially both councils lack the ability to professionally work together. The County for example, did not send their letterContinue Reading
CFN – Long time CFN viewers are familiar with “Jules”. She’s a senior who grew up in Cornwall and now resides in Ottawa with her family. She’s a frugal avid quilter who as she puts it, is far right of Stephen Harper and Bush. (She never specifies whichContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – It’s great to write a happy story about the Cornwall River Kings. The next chapter in their history began this week when Steve Moreau helped save the team by purchasing it after the disaster created by Cornwall’s own Criminal City Councilor Brock Fraud Frost. Mr. FrostContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – I remember when Todd was a nice guy. I really do. At least on the surface, but choking on exhaust from other media seems to have got the worst of him or it’s been having to work with Rick Shaver for as long as he has now?Continue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – What should we pay our mayor and council in Cornwall? Clearly their salaries are low and some might say you get what you pay for. There are some, like Bernadette Clement, that spend mightily to get elected and clearly are using the role of Councilor as aContinue Reading
As many of you know I have been the only candidate running for Mayor of our fair city now for a few months now. There’s a lot of chatter whether Mayor Kilger will run again. Most say that he won’t. His good buddy Claude McIntosh wrote about two months agoContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – So which schools in Cornwall improved or receded in 2012 according to the Fraser Institute Canadian study? Let’s take a peek! Cornwall’s best school in 2011/12, St. Anne’s slipped substantially going from 142/2714 to 551/3030 in 2012/13. In 2011/12 Viscount Alexander ranked 567/2714. This year theyContinue Reading