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- ↑ "Candidate profiles". The Whitehorse Star. Whitehorse, Yukon. November 13, 1991. p. 7.
- ↑ Joyce Hayden, Yukon's Women of Power: Political Pioneers in a Northern Canadian Colony. Windwalker Press, 1999. ISBN 978-0968626603.
- ↑ "Anti development protestors accost Whitehorse Mayor over proposed mall". CBC News, March 16, 2000.
- ↑ "Voters to have two choices for mayor". Whitehorse Star , September 24, 2009.
- ↑ "Former mayor will discuss natural health". Whitehorse Star , April 2, 2013.
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