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- ↑ "City of Whitehorse". City of Whitehorse. Retrieved 2021-10-22.
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- ↑ "Whitehorse Daily Star: Incumbent steamrolls over his adversaries". Whitehorse Daily Star. Retrieved 2020-06-25.