From andPOP:

• Canadian Idol Report: Idols Rock Us
  [Brian] May and [Roger] Taylor [of Queen] surprised the theatre crowd at the end of the show when they joined the cast of the show to perform “Bohemian Rhapsody,” before May addressed the crowd about the Idols.

From Macleans:

• Nothing more than an Idol threat?
  The executive producer of Canadian Idol, John Brunton, has come up with a novel way of promoting his show: attack the fans for their poor judgment. Earlier this month, Brunton put out a press release — the network, CTV, dubbed it a “Canadian Idol Alert” — in which he fumed that “anti-Toronto bias” among viewers is causing many of the best contestants to be sent home early.