{"id":279164,"date":"2026-01-02T15:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/?p=279164"},"modified":"2026-01-02T15:44:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:44:24","slug":"canadas-drag-race-season-6-episode-7-power-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/culture\/drag-race\/canadas-drag-race-season-6-episode-7-power-ranking-279164","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Canada\u2019s Drag Race\u2019 Season 6, Episode 7 power ranking: The final five"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Which queen will miss out on the finale by just one week?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome to <\/em>Canada\u2019s Drag Race Power Rankings!<\/em><\/a> Every week, we\u2019ll debrief the week\u2019s new episode of <\/em>Canada\u2019s Drag Race Season 6 to determine which queens are riding high, and which need she-mergency care. With Saltina Shaker\u2019s elimination, we\u2019re down to a final five. Which queen will miss out on the finale by just one week?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. Saltina Shaker (last week: 2)\u2014ELIMINATED<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve come to really appreciate Saltina across her seven episodes in this competition. While her self-mythologizing around her confidence did admittedly grate, when she got out of her own way and just performed, she really was pretty great! That said, both her looks this week were among my least favourites\u2014I hated her self-described \u201corchid petal monstrosity,\u201d and while I\u2019ll agree that her Brooke Lynn Hytes look could\u2019ve been worse, it was still the bottom of the barrel among the final six. I wrote in last week\u2019s power ranking<\/a> that Saltina making it so far in the Slay-Offs could actually come back to bite her if she had to survive a Lip Sync for Your Life, and that\u2019s exactly what happened. She exhausted her \u201cmoveset,\u201d to use a video game comparison, and didn\u2019t have anything new to offer, while PM still did. Sad to see Saltina go, but I do think this was a fair elimination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. PM (last week: 6)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I guess I\u2019m just wondering what we\u2019re doing with PM at this point. They\u2019ve fairly won all three of their Lip Syncs For Your Life, so I don\u2019t mind them still being in the competition. And I\u2019ve actually really grown to appreciate their specific POV when it comes to drag. The \u201cfloating skirt\u201d look they presented on the runway this week felt like something only they would do, and I think there really is a space for that kind of work on Drag Race<\/em>. But let\u2019s face facts: PM is not going to win Canada\u2019s Drag Race<\/em> Season 6. They still don\u2019t have a win (neither does Karamilk, but Karamilk is also not going to win this season), and their lip syncing skills will only take them to the final four at best. I\u2019d frankly rather bring someone like Karamilk, who is peaking at the right time, to the endgame than them. My guess is that next week\u2019s gauntlet of challenges ends in a final battle between the two dancers, and it really will come down to the lip sync to determine our fourth finalist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Eboni La\u2019Belle (last week: 1)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Notice how Eboni\u2019s moment of vulnerability was presented this week: She got down on herself in Mini-Untucked<\/em>, and the edit itself supported her. The genuine emotion! The sad music! Meanwhile, Van Goth pushing her buttons about being difficult to work with when she was already down made Eboni\u2019s best friend and closest rival look just awful in comparison. It\u2019s for all these reasons that, despite Eboni finally falling into the bottom three as Van gets her third win, I still feel better about Eboni\u2019s chances in the long run. I also don\u2019t think her look this week was that bad, though I agree with Brooke Lynn that it generally needed cleaning up. But hers were issues of construction, not design. For this to be Eboni\u2019s low moment in the competition speaks well for her trajectory, because it wasn\u2019t too bad in the slightest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Karamilk (last week: 4)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I join the judges in their excitement for Karamilk this week! She really figured it out and produced something that made Brooke Lynn look gorgeous. Sure, there were some construction issues in the front, but compared to what she was going<\/em> to make? She really pulled out a Hail Mary on this one, and was rewarded with a runner-up placement. (I have her at #3 on this list, though, because Sami\u2019s overall edit has been much stronger than Karamilk\u2019s. More on that in a second.) Erdem Moral\u0131o\u011flu seemed perplexed by Karamilk\u2019s own runway look, and I\u2019m inclined to agree with him on that. It was certainly different for her, and different for anyone, but that doesn\u2019t make it particularly good. But still, that\u2019s really all one can complain about with her output this week. Between her look for Brooke Lynn and her amazing lip syncs last week, Karamilk is peaking at just the right time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Sami Landri (last week: 3)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

If there\u2019s a spoiler to the seemingly inevitable Eboni\/Van final two, it\u2019s Sami. Not only has she been doing very well in the challenges\u2014I never<\/em> expected her to land in the top for a design task\u2014but the show is also giving her a lot of space to narrate her journey this season. When you see even Van admitting that she didn\u2019t see Sami coming, and giving her her flowers, that\u2019s a sign that the winds are shifting for the French-Canadian queen. Next week will be a big test for her: If she can demonstrate that her early season hiccup in the acting challenge was an aberration, and she has all the skills to become Canada\u2019s Next Drag Superstar, the judges may be inclined to look more seriously at her. Right now, I\u2019d say she\u2019s in the Kendall Gender position: a solid third to a clear top two. But especially if we see a shock elimination next week, she may be in a great spot to surprise us all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Van Goth (last week: 5)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Huge congrats to Van on her third win! We haven\u2019t seen a Canada\u2019s Drag Race<\/em> queen score three wins in eons<\/em>. The last was Rita Baga in Season 1! (Or, depending on how you count top placements in Canada vs. The World<\/em>, Victoria Scone.) Two of her wins came in design challenges, which Icesis Couture can tell you is a pretty good recipe for winning the whole kit and kaboodle. (Not Kitten Kaboodle.) However, my recent concerns about her edit persist. I just don\u2019t think Canada\u2019s Drag Race<\/em> would be editing her to be so arch if they really saw her as a possible champion. If she does win with this edit, she\u2019ll be very controversial, particularly if that victory comes over fan favourites like Eboni and Sami. I almost wonder if Van\u2019s near-breakdown last week wasn\u2019t a hint as to how she\u2019d do in a scenario where she\u2019s really at risk, and we might see her suddenly fighting for her life next week. Might Canada\u2019s Drag Race<\/em> have a shock boot situation on the horizon? Probably not, but I\u2019ll say here that if she does<\/em> go, there will have been signs in the edit\u2014signs that, even if she makes the end, might spell her doom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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