Safe Water Calgary is leading the campaign to keep fluoridation chemicals out of Calgary’s water. They are a well-organized and all-volunteer group of local citizens including concerned parents and professionals, led by Dr. Bob Dickson, MD. They've been utilizing both traditional and modern campaign strategies, including distributing yard signs (see photo above), handing out leaflets at local events, dropping door hangers, sending out mail inserts, generating earned media, and creating advertisements for various social media sites, radio, and news outlets. Follow them on Facebook to see some of their ads and memes.
If you live in Calgary, please vote NO on the plebiscite, tell your friends and family to vote NO, request a lawn sign if you are in a visible location, and please volunteer. They need "all hands on deck" to help with a variety of tasks, so please don't hesitate if you have any extra time between now and October 18th. Just email: safewatercalgary@gmail.com
If you live elsewhere in Canada, please make a donation to help fund more advertising time, as well as the printing of more signs, leaflets, and door hangers. They need to educate hundreds of thousands of voters over the next three and a half weeks. Canadians, can you help? DONATE TODAY
A Local Campaign With A Global Impact
While the decision in Calgary will have a direct impact on residents within the city and surrounding communities, there is little doubt that it will also have a much broader impact, especially throughout Canada.
Canada’s medical and dental establishments, and especially Health Canada, have been blatantly pro-fluoridation. In spite of that, Canada has been one of the western world's biggest success stories. Many of its cities and communities have stopped fluoridation in the past few decades, and some provinces like British Columbia and Quebec are 98% fluoridation-free.
Now, fluoridationists are working aggressively to reverse our momentum. They convinced the city council in Windsor, Ontario to reinstate fluoridation last year, and weeks ago they lobbied the Regina, Saskatchewan city council behind the scenes to vote for fluoridation with almost no public notice or input. This is about far more than Calgary. If they win here, they will roll out their efforts all over Canada, making it far more difficult for citizens everywhere to keep or make their water safe for all citizens.
We must work together to protect the safety of our drinking water against the aggressive lobbying tactics of the dental, insurance, and chemical industries who promote this harmful practice.
How can you help today?
The message of our first newsletter is to support Calgary any way that you can, to help them win against pro-fluoridation.
Sincerely,
Dr. James Winter, PhD
Fluoride Free Canada
Newsletter Director
