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Actually, I tend to think of them as Canon, unless told otherwise.

One of my favorites was a scene from Season 2, with Neal navigating the JR from NYC to Storybrooke. It was one of the rare moments that he had with Henry, and it also was a strong forshadowing of Neverland. Henry makes the casual comment about "2nd star to the right..." and Neal was like "Where did you hear that", and when Henry said something about the Peter Pan story, Neal's response was a somewhat cryptic "You shouldn't always believe what you read".

Also, there were some deleted scenes shown on Good Morning America earlier this year the day after the related episodes came out. The fact that those particular clips were released as early as they were, rather than waiting form the DVD, would seem to indicate that these are definitely Canon.

But that's just my opinion.