#4390

Release:  October 18, 1999

Lyrics:

Once in a lifetime you find

Someone to show you the way

Someone to make your decisions

But I let you lead me astray

Who did you think you were fooling?

Said you were missing me blind

But the truth is I knew you were lying

You were using me time after time

When the heartache is over

I know I won't be missing you (missing you)

Won't look over my shoulder

'Cause I know that I can live without you

Oh, live without you

Oh, I can live without you

Time to move on with my life now

Leaving the past all behind

I can make my own decisions

It was only a matter of time

Sometimes I look back in anger

Thinking about all the pain

But I know that I'm stronger without you

And that I'll never need you again

When the heartache is over

I know I won't be missing you (missing you)

Won't look over my shoulder

'Cause I know that I can live without you

Oh, live without you

Oh, I can live without you

Songwriter:

When the heartache is over

I know I won't be missing you

Won't look over my shoulder

'Cause I know that I can live without you

Oh, when the heartache is over

I know I won't be missing you (missing you)

Won't look over my shoulder

'Cause I know that I can live without you

Yeah, yeah, I can live without you

Oh, I can live without you

Live without you

I can live without you, yeah

I can live without you

Graham Stack / John Robinson Reid

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 Although it is not wrong to view rural Canada as a place with breathtaking natural wonders, most urban dwellers in Canada would often only associate rural Canada with a singular function.

However, rural Canada is so much more. 

Rural Canada encompasses the cultural inheritance of traditions, experiences and wisdom. In a way, the increasingly homogenized urban global cities can no longer reproduce such unique landscapes (both physical and cultural). However, this very difference of culture that could lead to negative stereotypes and assumptions that urbanites may have against rural Canada.

One such negative perspective that the city folks that might have could be that they often dismiss rural residents as “ignorant”. However, assumptions can be easily made if there is a lack of information about each other. From the perspective of the rural residents, the lack of access to many media outlets for alternate opinions and views may justify the reason behind the perceived ignorance. This issue is also related to the power dynamics between the rural and the urban. Strategic decisions are often exclusively made in urban locations which cause the rural to be less developed hence the lack of access to the relevant services that they need. The aforementioned example only covered an edge of what is a deeply rooted problem. There are many other contentious topics such as the difference in terms of ethnicity, religions and cultures. Therefore, we should not make unfair assumptions of the rural without examining the socioeconomic forces that shape our local realities, politics, lifestyle and identities.

Although the film One Week as mentioned before did not paint the rural in a negative light, we can still see the importance of how art forms can alter the way people perceive things. Thereafter, the assumptions formed can influence decisions which are often city-centric. The decisions made would severely disadvantage the rural if negative stereotypes persist. The assumption that the city is more significant than the rural is especially detrimental because it creates a domino effect which further tips the power balance between the rural and the urban. For instance, would be the justification for not requiring rural election ridings to have populations as large as city seats. This is due to the population census not providing a complete picture for analysis. The fluxes of people are not effectively captured in these censuses for administrators to realize the population significance of the rural. This drastically affects the power balance between the rural and the urban.