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- ↑ "Revisiting Quebec culture". Montreal Gazette , September 13, 2004.
- ↑ "Sitcoms risk quashing viewers' will to live". Montreal Gazette , March 5, 2005.
- ↑ "Km/h au grand écran?". Le Soleil , August 21, 2009.
