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- ↑ "Mark Sakamoto’s Forgiveness: A family history that is also Canada’s". The Globe and Mail , July 18, 2014.
- 1 2 "Hatter’s book named to top 15 list of CBC’s Canada Reads program". Medicine Hat News , January 22, 2018.
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- ↑ "Laurier announces shortlist for the 2015 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction". Wilfrid Laurier University, July 30, 2015.
- ↑ "Meet the Canada Reads 2018 contenders". CBC Books, January 30, 2018.
- ↑ "Jeanne Beker, championing Forgiveness, wins Canada Reads 2018", CBC Books, March 29, 2018
- ↑ "Adaptation of Canada Reads 2018 winner Forgiveness in development with CBC and DCTV". CBC Books, April 11, 2018.
- ↑ Chris Brown, "Former Hatter Mark Sakamoto sharing stories of Good People". CHAT-TV, May 8, 2020.
