While you are members of a government that has done so many disservices (to put it politely) to the people of BC, you, Pat and Shirley, deserve a “pat” on the back for obtaining this money for the 100th anniversary of the PGX.

City council, which found it all fine to vote itsef a raise during this time of “fiscal restraint”, should be ashamed for failing to step up to the plate in any significant way for the exhibition.

Core review that raise.

I don’t want my tax dollars supporting this kind of hillbilly event.

So glad for the PGX staff and team, this will surely take off some possible financial pressure! I hope weaksauce will keep his dirty nose out of this great event, for it is people like you who ruin such fantastic events! I hope my taxes are spent like this all over the province!! Good job Pat and Shirley!!

How can I ruin something by having nothing to do with it?

Good news!
metalman.

Have to agree with Littleone! Thanks to our two MLAs for stepping up, a grinch award to you know who!

Fiscal restraint should include the discontinuation of the needles and potentially harmful addition of the effluent chemical hydrofluorosilicic acid (fluoride) to our tap water supply! Instant savings: The health of the people and at least $100,000 annually! Enough to do some meaningful support of really deserving community efforts!

98% of the B.C. population is already free from this chemical and the only major holdout is – you guessed it – Prince George B.C.!

Only Ft. St. John and Terrace haven’t grasped yet how extremely harmful the internal consumption of this polluted effluent by-product can be in the long run!

A recent university study concluded that for children who consume fluoridated tap water during the first six years of their life a reduction in IQ of between 10 to 20 points is just one bad consequence. Bone cancer in young males, thyroid and kidney dysfunction are others.

Our community must be alerted to the troubling results emerging from recent studies:

NEW YORK, July 24, 2012
Harvard University researchers’ review of fluoride/brain studies concludes “our results support the possibility of adverse effects of fluoride exposures on children’s neurodevelopment.”

It was published online July 20 in Environmental Health Perspectives, a US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences’ journal (1), reports the NYS Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. (NYSCOF)

“The children in high fluoride areas had significantly lower IQ than those who lived in low fluoride areas,” write Choi et al.

Further, the EPA says fluoride is a chemical “with substantial evidence of developmental neurotoxicity.”

There’s a provincial election in 2013. Get the picture! Lubricating the voters!

weaksauce, you’re an idiot.

This site needs a report button. I’d love to be able to report this spamming flouride crap.

Thanks MLAs Shirley Bond and Pat Bell – it was wonderful what you two have done!

Buying our votes with our tax money..pathetic attempt

I was at the Billy Barker Days in Quesnel a few weeks ago and that my friends is one heck of a well done community event. PG could learn a lot from them. Fantastic fireworks as well, something missed in PG.

It’s called fluoride – not flouride! It’s not spamming because my opinion is not expressed as an attempt to make a commercial profit but as a service to the community which needs to be alerted to the fact that the addition of fluoride is unnecessary and reckless, in my opinion. It also costs a lot of money and if the city is REALLY determined to save money (core review, denial of some funding requests and so forth) it is MY opinion that a large saving can be made annually by eliminating fluoridation – something which 98% of the population of B.C. either never had or which has been discontinued in the last few years!

This site is called Opinion250. It is for expressing opinions. If the editor decides that my expressing of an opinion which is connected to a topic and which I consider to be a duty to post – as a service to the whole community – so be it!

The risks of fluoridation far outweigh any perceived benefits! Smoking and lead in paint and gasoline and asbestos used to be officially o.k. too until the officials woke up and decided that it was NOT so!

I love flouride ….. ;-)

I also love flourescent lights …..

One can do a lot with flour ….. :-)

Which brings to mind the word oxide … I love oxen too …. :-)

Right on, Gus! I actually got standard reply (file #13 type) emails from government agencies about fluoride spelling fluoride and fluoridation incorrectly while maintaining that they know more about “flouride” and “flouridation” than I do! What a merry bunch! And that includes information from the Canadian Dental Association which still endorses the ingestion of “flouridated water” – except for infants. Why? Perhaps it is not as harmless as was thought in the past?

Thanks for the laugh!

Gus – fluorescent lights…

All I can say to the no strings attached donation is “sweet”

PrinceGeorge,

Every story I read you post about fluoride. We get it. It sucks, bring a petition around town, I will sign it, but please stop with the spamming, it is annoying.

As for the story a hand, I always find it funny when we get all excited that the government is giving funding to things. It is our money, they take fist fulls of it from us everyday and like a hand full of sand, some trickles out and we are supposted be so grateful for it. How bout this, stop taking so much of it, I will spend it on the things I value and we will eliminte a rather pricy middleman.

Porter, sorry that you are being annoyed! But I don’t agree with you that what I am stating is spam! I do agree that petitions are a good idea, it has been tried and hundreds of signatures have been collected, but no impression can be made on the people who make the crucial decision. Several presentations have been made before council, without any result. I believe that additional petitions will not get any different result.

Since the city claims that it is on a fiscal austerity mission it would make a lot of sense to save the money that is still being wasted on this needless fluoridation thing on something credible.

Those who wish to have clean tap water for drinking, bathing and cooking have rights too.

Don’t forget, Prince George is the VERY LAST large community which still injects artificial fluoride into the otherwise great tap water. 98% of B.C. residents are NOT being subjected to this fluoridation method and they are not missing out on anything beneficial.

I will not promise to not mention it again on this website. It is (besides a newspaper) the one and only media where one can express an open opinion about this vital matter.

When I see an obvious connection I consider it my civic duty to raise it again and express my opinion about it.

I am sure you will understand and put up with being a little annoyed. It’s better to be annoyed than slowly poisoned with a chemical from the super phosphate industry.

There is NO safe concentration.

“Posted by: RUEZ on August 1 2012 9:18 PM
weaksauce, you’re an idiot.”

That’s libel!

So let’s find out who the sleazy culprits are—the ones who take the 75,000 dollars annually from us to put this poison in our water. Who does this money actually go to? Someone obviousley held in high esteem by City Council. C’mon Ben — you can find out who owns the company that takes the cash while poisoning us!

wtf fluoride geeks????? Can’t wait for you to kill tomorrows free for all with this crap. This bs is a coffin nail for sites like this.

Great news and well deserved for a hard working crew….look forward to the PGX next week!