Canada is now officially eligible to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest after its public broadcaster, CBC\/Radio-Canada, became a full member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).<\/p>\n
Full EBU membership is one of the key requirements for countries wishing to participate in Eurovision, opening the door for Canada to potentially make its debut in a future contest.<\/p>\n
The move follows efforts by Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s government to strengthen ties with Europe, with officials confirming last year they were exploring the possibility of Canada joining the competition.<\/p>\n
Canada wouldn\u2019t be the first country from outside Europe to take part. Australia has become a Eurovision regular, while Israel has competed for decades and Morocco appeared once in 1980.<\/p>\n
Although Canada has never officially entered the contest, Canadians have already left their mark on Eurovision. In 1988, C\u00e9line Dion famously won the competition while representing Switzerland, a victory that helped launch her international career.<\/p>\n
Whether Canada will actually compete in next year\u2019s contest remains to be seen, but the country is now officially eligible to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada is now officially eligible to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest after its public broadcaster, CBC\/Radio-Canada, became…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-763511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}