{"id":105807,"date":"2026-06-27T05:18:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T05:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/105807\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T05:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T05:18:26","slug":"canada-is-now-eligible-to-compete-in-the-eurovision-song-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/105807\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada is Now Eligible to Compete in the Eurovision Song Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

The great nation of Canada<\/a>, home of the Maple Leafs<\/a>, David Cronenberg, and Slings & Arrows, is now European. Take THAT, Trump. <\/p>\n

Well, they\u2019re now eligible<\/a> to take part in one of our continent\u2019s great musical messes: Eurovision! CBC\/Radio-Canada became a full member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which means they could now send a singer across the Atlantic to belt their hearts out for our cruel votes. Hey, if Australia can do it\u2026 <\/p>\n

The move comes as Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney pushed for CBC, the country\u2019s public broadcaster, to form greater ties with Europe, and hey, why not \u201cexplore participation in Eurovision.\u201d It\u2019s not like they\u2019re totally new to it. In 1988, C\u00e9line Dion, a proud Canadian from Montreal, won the contest as the representative for Switzerland. It helped to launch her international career. As the BBC notes, \u201cOther Canadians have since competed, including Natasha St-Pier, an Acadian New Brunswicker who represented France in 2001, and La Zarra, a singer from Montreal who represented France in 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eurovision is in a messy spot right now. The EBU continues to allow Israel to compete, even as other countries boycotted their inclusion following the genocide in Gaza. Israel has also been accused of gaming the race<\/a> through public votes. Broadcasters have had to use \u201canti-booing technology\u201d for their performances because the crowd\u2019s protests have been so vocal. Eurovision has always been political, but the past few years have been uncomfortably so given what\u2019s happening in Gaza. I\u2019m not sure if Canada competing would make that any better, but at least we\u2019d fully drop the pretence of being a continent-specific competition (not that it\u2019s been that for decades.)<\/p>\n

So, who would you want to compete for Canada? Would Celine do it again? Can Chad Kroeger sing a ballad? What\u2019s k.d. lang up to these days? Can the Letterkenny boys put a band together?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The great nation of Canada, home of the Maple Leafs, David Cronenberg, and Slings & Arrows, is now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[37755,17,37751,37754,407,37753,37756,968,37759,19249,37752,37758,37757,417],"class_list":["post-105807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-and-slings-arrows","tag-canada","tag-canada-is-now-eligible-to-compete-in-the-eurovision-song-contest","tag-david-cronenberg","tag-entertainment","tag-home-of-the-maple-leafs","tag-is-now-european-take-that","tag-movies","tag-pajiba","tag-pop-culture","tag-the-great-nation-of-canada","tag-theyre-now-eligible-to-take-part-in-one-of-our-continents-great-musical-messes-eurovision-cbc-radio-canada-became","tag-trump-well","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}