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- ↑ https://www.centennialcollege.ca/programs-courses/full-time/childrens-media/ Click on Faculty bios and scroll down.
- ↑ "Writers Guild of Canada Awards List for 1999". wgc.ca. Archived from the original on 15 March 2007. Retrieved 16 April 2008.
- ↑ Etan Vlessing, "Writers hand awards to Corner Gas, Motor City". Playback , April 28, 2008.
