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- ↑ "Delroy Dunkley worked on tobacco farms in Southwestern Ontario until diagnosed with cancer". St. Thomas Times-Journal , April 19, 2017.
- ↑ Jordan Pinto, "CSAs ’18: Never Steady Never Still, Ava top CSA film noms". Playback , January 16, 2018.
- ↑ Pat Mullen, "Don’t Come Searching and the Art of Letting Go". Point of View , May 2, 2022.
