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- ↑ "Q&A: Mayor Melissa Blake on her final term in office". Fort McMurray Today. September 18, 2016. Retrieved 2017-10-23.
- ↑ "Blake reflects on career marked by booms, busts and growing pains". Fort McMurray Today. October 17, 2017. Retrieved 2017-10-23.
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