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- ↑ Lindsay Brown, "Don't buy CBC's hype: Rideau Hall is horrible". Halifax Daily News , October 13, 2002.
- ↑ Tony Atherton, "Rooting for Rideau Hall: Bette MacDonald stars as a spaced-out boogie mama appointed as head of state". Montreal Gazette , October 11, 2002.
- ↑ "Comic's parody of Rideau Hall debuts as CBC-TV series". Pembroke Observer , October 11, 2002.
- ↑ Tony Atherton, "An unfunny thing happened on the way to CBC". Ottawa Citizen , February 27, 2003.
