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My angular view of the Great Canadian Song Quest will be a departure for most of you. I'm not going to be a tourism promoter here. Not that that's bad - I love the love that's been shown for Canada's physical beauty. It's just that variety is good, right?
Just west of Regina, there is a little grid road we all call the "Pinkie Road." Back in the day, there was a lovely grain elevator there, named "Pinkie," and a rail siding, and nothing else, and we all thought of it as the smallest place on earth. If you looked at it facing west, you'd think you were in the middle of nowhere.
It turns out that "Pinkie" became "...the middle of nowhere..." which is what I want Buffy Saint Marie to write a song about. You see, they found Pamela George's
http://www.injusticebusters.com/2003/George_Pamela.htm
battered body in the ditch beside the Pinkie Road, back in 1996. Hundreds of other battered bodies like hers are still lost, "...in the middle of nowhere..." and she and her sisters deserve a song.
Prairie Oyster did much for battered women with "Black-eyed Susan," and I propose we use this contest to commission Buffy Sainte-Marie to do the same for our lost, forgotten aboriginal women.
Vigils are great, but way too silent. Let's make some noise!
- nowhereman
