The United States Ends Water Fluoridation. Your Comments on "How to Convince Your Neighbours to Make the Right Voting Choice in This Historic Election"

UPDATED WITH MORE LINKS RELATED Fluoridation

New References:

• www.fluoridefreecanada.ca

• April 15, 2025 › Profanity-laced Emails, Misuse of CDC Funds: How Big Fluoride Tries to Prevent Towns From Removing Fluoride (Children’s Health Defense)

Follow-Up on Previous Article:

Thank you to everyone who read, liked, shared, and commented on my previous Substack article, “How to Convince Your Relatives and Neighbors to Make the Right Voting Choice in This Historic Election.” Your feedback and support mean a lot.

Below is my response to two reader comments—each powerful in its own way, despite being complete opposites in tone and recommendation. I genuinely appreciate both perspectives.

Also, I’ve improved the readability of the article and updated the final “P.S.” section with a new surprise—and another creative action idea. Check it out if you haven’t seen the latest version, and please keep sharing it widely. It’s meant to spark real conversations at a crucial time for our country.

To make sharing even easier, I’ve set up a simple shortcut link: IVIM.CA/ELECTIONS. I’ve already ordered a batch of car stickers with this link, which I’ll be placing on my own vehicles and distributing around the neighborhood. If you’d like one, just let me know—if you’re in Ottawa, I’ll deliver it to your door, or I can send it by post. A simple sticker on the back of your car could spark curiosity, awareness, and change.

Now, back to your comments! You can read both comments at the bottom of the original article. And here is my response to two of them that caught my attention by the diversity of their views.

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Politics Is Not for Everyone… Or Is It?

I recently received two comments with completely opposite sentiments. One encouraged me to run for political office (“I’ll vote for you!”), while the other urged me to stay away from politics altogether, not waste my energy there, not even vote, but rather focus on building a world of our own—“a world where we take back our power.”

I’m genuinely grateful for both perspectives.

My answer to both would be: yes—we absolutely need to focus our energy on connecting with one another and building the kind of community we want to live in. One rooted in respect for nature, family, and fundamental rights.

But at the same time, we cannot ignore politics. To delay or diminish its negative effects on our lives, we need to actively participate in elections and apply pressure—on all candidates, regardless of their political stripe—to stand up for the values and rights that matter to us.

The democratic system is still the best framework we have for making that happen—if we know how to use it, and if we’re willing to invest even a small part of our time and energy in it.

The recent elections in Alberta and the U.S. are proof of just how much impact that can have.

Now, the main feature of today’s article…

Main Feature

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In a landmark move that has gone largely unnoticed in Canadian media, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has ordered the CDC to stop recommending fluoridation of drinking water nationwide.

This decision represents a major shift in American public health policy and has been long awaited by those concerned about the health risks of fluoride exposure—particularly its potential links to neurodevelopmental disorders and thyroid dysfunction.

Kennedy’s move brings the U.S. in line with communities like Gatineau, Quebec—just north of Ottawa—where fluoride was removed from the public water system in 2010. That decision followed a strong, community-led movement of residents who mobilized, protested, and successfully pressured local officials to end the practice.

Since then, Gatineau has quietly become a haven for those seeking fluoride-free water. In fact, some Ottawa residents have chosen to move across the river just to drink cleaner water.

And yet, across the Ottawa River in Canada’s national capital, water fluoridation continues uninterrupted. Despite increasing concern from health-conscious citizens and experts, Ottawa and many other Canada municipalities remain steadfast in its support for the practice—one that more and more countries and communities around the world are now abandoning. You can read more about it all in the article below.

Stop Fluoridation: The Fatally Toxic Industrial Chimney Sludge in Your Water

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Why Has Canadian Media Ignored This Breakthrough?

The silence is deafening.

A major U.S. policy shift—one affecting millions of people’s daily health—has occurred, and the Canadian press has barely blinked. Why?

As I argued in a previous article, most Canadian mainstream media outlets now operate as little more than mouthpieces for political parties and corporate lobbies. Far from being neutral conveyors of truth, they function more like public relations agencies for the state and its industrial partners.

If the U.S. administration does something bold and positive—like halting water fluoridation—it is ignored, because it doesn’t serve the preferred narrative. Only negative news about the U.S. is permitted to reach Canadian screens and front pages.

This reminds me vividly of the Soviet Union, where I grew up. We never saw balanced news about the West. Every report was carefully curated to reflect ideological superiority and cast doubt on outside perspectives. We learned to read between the lines.

That’s the key.

The correct way to consume Canadian news today is to understand that it’s not telling you how the world is. It’s telling you how political elites and corporate stakeholders want you to think the world is.

Once you realize that, reading the headlines becomes a whole different experience. You begin to understand not only what’s being said, but—more importantly—what’s being carefully hidden.

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What They Don’t Want You to Know About Fluoride

The fluoride added to Canadian drinking water isn’t some pristine pharmaceutical compound. It’s often a waste byproduct from phosphate fertilizer manufacturing—sourced from highly polluted industrial sites, particularly in the southern United States.

This substance is then sold, at a profit, to Canadian municipalities and added to our drinking water under the banner of public health. That practice feeds a multi-million-dollar pipeline connecting industrial waste, government contracts, and public taps.

Many Canadians are completely unaware of this, thanks to government messaging and media silence.

And yet, more and more communities are questioning this logic. Around the world, fluoridation is falling out of favour. In fact, most European countries do not fluoridate their water at all.

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What’s Next for Canada?

Now that the U.S. has made this bold decision, what will Canada do?

Will our Ministry of Health take the opportunity to re-evaluate the science and ethics of this practice? Or will they dig in, continuing to ignore emerging evidence and global trends in order to appease entrenched economic interests?

And how long must Canadians wait until these issues can even be discussed openly—without censorship, without industry-driven spin, and without media filters telling us what we’re “supposed” to believe?

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Gatineau said no to fluoride in 2010.
The United States has just said no in 2025.
When will the rest of Canada finally join them?

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P.S.

The most exciting part of this story is that I personally know the person who led the rallying efforts in Gatineau in 2010, which resulted in the historic decision to end water fluoridation in the city. I met him—along with many other wonderful people—during the spring and summer of 2022. He is the founder of the group Glorious And Free, which has over 10,000 subscribers on Facebook and Telegram. Their mission is to build communities that reflect the kind of world we want to live in.

If this is something you're interested in too, don't hesitate to join the group and get involved!

And please keep adding your comments to continue the discussion—I love receiving them and will do my best to respond to each one.