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- ↑ Yukon Legislature Speaks: Ron Veale. Yukon Archives.
- ↑ "Byelections". CPA Activities: The Canadian Scene , Vol. 4, No. 2.
- ↑ "Northerners wary of plan to impose bilingualism". The Gazette , March 24, 1984.
- ↑ "‘We now have a clear direction from the Supreme Court’". Whitehorse Star , September 19, 2013.
- ↑ CBC News (audio): "New and retiring chief justice of Yukon Supreme Court reflect on the role"
- ↑ "Meet this year's inductees to the Order of Yukon". CBC News. December 3, 2020.
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