Natasha Tabuchi will head to The Miss World Canada Pageant in Toronto in July. (submitted photo/Natasha Tabuchi)

By Alison Sandstrom

Pagaent aspirations

Prince Albert woman to compete for Miss World Canada crown

Mar 9, 2020 | 5:01 PM

A 22-year-old prospective police officer from Prince Albert will be among 60 women from across the country competing in the Miss World Canada Pageant this summer in Toronto.

Natasha Tabuchi told paNOW she received the news she was selected a week ago, following an interview with the pageant’s director.

“I was freaking out with joy,” she said. “I was so happy and honoured that she had selected me to represent our city, because I’ve never heard of anyone from Prince Albert actually making it to Miss World Canada.”

The weeklong July competition will be Tabuchi’s first pageant. If she wins, she’ll go on to represent Canada at the 2020 Miss World pageant in Thailand.

She hopes to use her platform as a contestant to be a positive example for girls and young women like her two teenaged sisters.

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“I just really believe that there needs to be better role models of purity, integrity, success and ambition,” she explained.

Meanwhile, Tabuchi continues to work as a server at Star House and the Rock and Iron in Prince Albert, and is set to graduate from university with a degree in social work in June. In the future, she hopes to become a police officer like her father, and recently applied to the RCMP.

While there might not be many pageant queens on the force, she sees parallels between the two worlds.

“It takes a lot of perseverance and drive, both policing and competing in a pageants,” she said. “You have to have a strong core value system of honour and integrity in both that needs to be upheld.”

“Why can’t a cop also be a beauty pageant winner?”

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