Mike Del Grande loves cavities (and possibly conspiracy theories)

At yesterday’s budget committee meeting, Mike Del Grande presented a motion—he called it a “grenade”—in favour of eliminating fluoride from the city’s drinking water. Del Grande argued that fluoride is unnecessary and expensive in an era of good dentists and fancy toothpaste (the city forks out $2 million annually for fluoridation). While Del Grande’s argument is predicated on fiscal conservatism, there are some more conspiratorial arguments against the practice—including that it’s state-sanctioned poison, mind-control serum and a sterilization toxin. Maybe Del Grande knows something that we don’t, and if that’s the case, we have some pamphlets on the moon landing that will blow his mind. Read the entire story [National Post] »