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- ↑ "No tears shed as Red Green Show wraps after 15 years". Telegraph-Journal , November 5, 2005.
- ↑ "Red Green's new fans in outer space". Toronto Star , April 23, 1997.
- ↑ "Steve Smith shoots Duct Tape Forever in rural southwestern Ontario". Canadian Press, May 18, 2001.
