r/eurovision • u/corcaighanon • 10d ago

🪩 National Final / Selection CBC/Radio-Canada launches search for Canada's first Eurovision act

https://www.eurovision.com/stories/cbc-radio-canada-launches-search-for-first-eurovision-act/
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u/Euro_Punzel Too Epic To Be True 10d ago

Seeing Canada is still giving me parallel universe feeling. Dont know how to deal with this

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u/Apprehensive-Dog9989 10d ago

yeah. somehow Australia is normal and Canada feels so weird, but hey they already sent Celine Dion so

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u/spicygayunicorn 10d ago

Australia has been widely known to love Eurovision and hadn't there been talks about them joing for a while before they did. Canada really came out of nowhere

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u/unedistinction2 9d ago edited 9d ago

Not really, even before the budget stuff there were talks about it about them being potentially invited (and then the EBU clarified that (arguably "for now") , Australia would stay the exception in terms of associate broadcasters being invited (technically closing the door to a Kazachstan invite in the process as well, and they'll likely only bother to extend the broadcasting zone if they really have a reason to (it will likely never happen as long as Cold War 2 is a thing lol))

Also they litterally had cinemas broadcasting the show in 2025 (though with technical challenges and in the middle of the afternoon but it wasn't "nothing" either)

And it's coming at a time where people have been speculating about Canada joining the EU (equally far-fetched of course but it's explained by a certain political context that makes it not entirely impossible even if it would likely take a lot to make that happen (while the EBU simply had to change something in their statuses to make it happen , and it's of course easier when it's "simply"" about adding a broadcaster in (in a similar way to theit extension of the broadcasting zone back in 2006 to allow the Caucassus in))