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Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs. the World season 2

season of television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ126915726 ↗
Source-derived summary

The second season of Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs. the World premiered on July 19, 2024, on Crave in Canada and WOW Presents Plus internationally. Brooke Lynn Hytes acts as the host and main judge, with Brad Goreski and Traci Melchor as supporting judges.

The contestants for the season were announced on June 26, 2024 and feature queens who previously competed on the Canadian, American, British, and French versions of the franchise as well as the related spin-off RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs. the World. Nine queens competed for the title of "Queen of the Mother-Pucking World" and a cash prize of $100,000.

The winner of the second season of Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs. The World was Lemon, with Alexis Mateo as the runner-up. As the winner of the season, Lemon won a cash prize of $100,000 and earned the title "Queen of the Motherpucking World".

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs. the World season 2” is season of television series. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Canada's, Drag and Race, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Canada's, Drag and Race is the immediate research focus.
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