The public vote that decides Canada’s first Eurovision entry closes on Thursday, November 5 at 11:59 p.m. PT, and the ballot is simple: anyone in Canada aged 13 or older can vote once a day at CBC.ca/eurovision for one of the five Canada’s Choice finalists, up to 10 votes in total.
Three voting days remain after today, so a voter who starts now can still cast three ballots before the window shuts. The winner is announced by December and carries the Canadian flag into the 71st Eurovision Song Contest in Burgas, Bulgaria in May 2027, the first Canadian entry in the contest’s history.
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How to vote: the Canada’s Choice voting site at CBC.ca/eurovision
Who can vote: anyone in Canada, 13 or older
How often: one vote per day, up to 10 votes in total
Deadline: Thursday, November 5, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. PT (2:59 a.m. ET on Friday)
Winner announced: by December 2026
How the Canada’s Choice Vote Works
The vote itself takes under a minute. Go to the voting site, where CBC and Radio-Canada have posted videos featuring each of the five finalists, watch the performances, and pick the artist you want on the Eurovision stage. The first vote is confirmed by email, and after that you can return once a day until the deadline and vote again, to a maximum of 10 votes across the whole window.
There is no jury override at this stage. CBC set the final decision entirely in the public’s hands: the artist with the most votes wins, and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, the official auditor, oversees the voting system and the tabulation of the results. The five finalists were cut from 325 submissions filed in August and September, first to a field of 15 by the CBC and Radio-Canada music teams, then to five by an expert jury in Toronto on October 8. From here on, the count is the whole contest.
The Five Finalists, in Brief
iimiTV profiled all five at length in CBC Reveals Canada Eurovision 2027 Finalists. The short version, for voters deciding this week:
William Cloutier, from Victoriaville, Quebec, is the theatre voice of the five: a Star Académie winner from 2021 with a Starmania pedigree and two albums behind him, pointed to the ballad Nous as the measure of his range.
Josiane (Josiane Comeau), from Moncton, New Brunswick, won La Voix in 2020 and carries the Acadian flag in the race, singing in both official languages; her debut album Take Care arrived in March.
Rêve (Briannah Donolo), from Montreal, is the dance pop entry, a JUNO winner for Ctrl + Alt + Del who has followed Eurovision for a decade and is pitching a staging built by Canadian creatives.
Talk (Nicholas Durocher), from Ottawa, brings theatrical rock and the JUNO for Breakthrough Artist of the Year in 2024, on the strength of Run Away to Mars. His pitch at the reveal was the bluntest of the day: “I really think this opportunity was built for me, and I’m ready to win.”
Tyler Shaw, from Richmond, British Columbia, is the veteran: five albums, four JUNO nominations, and a version of Love You Still that has passed 100 million streams, with a bilingual calling card in With You.
Voters who want to see the five perform rather than just read about them still have a window: the Horizon Eurovision live performance special aired Sunday, November 1 on CBC Music and ICI MUSIQUE, with television rebroadcasts on Tuesday, November 3, and the finalist videos stay up on the voting site until the deadline.
What Happens After November 5
The winner is announced by December, and then the second half of Canada’s Choice begins: the song. The winning artist works with CBC, Radio-Canada and music industry professionals to create the entry and its staging, and the finished song carries lyrics in both English and French, whoever wins. That artist first, song second order is what makes this vote different from most national selections: Canadians are choosing a performer, not a record.
The destination is Arena Burgas in Burgas, Bulgaria, where the semi-finals run May 11 and 13, 2027 and the grand final follows on May 15, in front of a global audience counted between 130 and 180 million viewers. Canada is the first country to debut at Eurovision since Australia in 2015, and there is no free pass: the Canadian act has to qualify out of its semi-final like everyone else in its half of the draw.
Three days of voting are left, and the race has no published frontrunner, which is exactly when a daily vote is worth the most. Cast one today, come back Tuesday and Wednesday, and iimiTV will follow the winner announcement in December and the song as it gets built toward Burgas.
