Canada\u2019s national broadcaster has indicated that further statements regarding Eurovision participation are expected, following confirmation that the country is now eligible to compete in the contest.<\/p>\n
This week, CBC\/Radio-Canada became a full member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), a move that makes Canada eligible to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time.<\/p>\n
The decision to grant CBC\/Radio-Canada full EBU membership followed a revision to the EBU\u2019s Statutes, which were also approved by the General Assembly. The revised framework opens extra-European Membership to broadcasting organizations from countries with a public service media system aligned with core Council of Europe standards and formal observer status with the Council of Europe. Canada was deemed to meet both criteria.<\/p>\n
Despite the major development, CBC has stopped short of confirming whether Canada will take part in Eurovision.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the broadcaster told CBC News<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ll have more to say about the Eurovision Song Contest later.\u201d<\/p>\n At present, no timeline has been given for when a decision could be announced, and CBC has not confirmed any plans to debut in a future contest.<\/p>\n Source: CBC News<\/a><\/p>\n Canada and Eurovision+<\/p>\n Canada has previously participated in Eurovision Young Dancers in 1987 and 1989. Canada\u2019s participation in the 1987 contest marked the first time that a country outside the European Broadcasting Area participated in a Eurovision Contest. Several Canadian singers have also represented other countries at the Eurovision Song Contest, such as Sherisse Laurence (Luxembourg 1986), Annie Cotton (Switzerland 1993), Natasha St-Pier (France 2001), Rykka (Switzerland 2016) and C\u00e9line Dion (1988 winner for Switzerland).<\/p>\n CBC\/Radio-Canada was first reported to be exploring\u00a0participation<\/a>\u00a0in the Eurovision Song Contest in November 2025. The broadcaster also sent\u00a0observers<\/a>\u00a0to the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 in Vienna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s national broadcaster has indicated that further statements regarding Eurovision participation are expected, following confirmation that the country…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[55724,96,18168,59,124446,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-660694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ebu","tag-entertainment","tag-eurovision","tag-gb","tag-moments","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}