From a CTV media release:

Another One Bites the Dust: Greg Neufeld Goes Home as Canadian Idol Top 6 is Revealed

• Legendary Paul Anka to Appear on Canadian Idol for “Standards Week,” August 27 & 28
• Next Week’s “Pop Rock” Theme Features Live Performance by Maroon 5

In one of the most shocking results episodes ever, Abbotsford’s Greg Neufeld was eliminated from Canadian Idol tonight after receiving the fewest votes on Monday. The 23-year-old house framer from B.C., who was considered to be the front-runner in the competition by several odds-makers, becomes the first male to be eliminated from the Top 10 this season. Neufeld had never before appeared among the bottom group of competitors. Four male and two female competitors were left standing as Neufeld reprised his rendition, ironically, of Queen’s “We Are The Champions,” in front of a stunned studio audience.

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From the Montreal Gazette:

• Brian Melo: king of Queen
  Canadian Idol’s seven remaining contestants took on the Queen songbook last night, taking stabs at tunes made famous by the band’s late, flamboyant frontman, Freddie Mercury.

From the Nova News Now:

• Dwight d’Eon impresses judges with top-7 performance
  After singing songs of the British rock group Queen on Canadian Idol’s top-seven performance show Monday evening, the contestants – among them West Pubnico’s Dwight d’Eon – will find out tonight who has to go home as the field of competitors is reduced to six.

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.

From Sun Media:

• Queen featured on ‘Cdn Idol’
  Although the workshops make up a few minutes of the actual program that comes across your TV screen each week, the actual production is far more intricate and laborious than you might expect.