Mar 29, 2011 | 22:29Rick Mercer Report Season 8 - Episode 19 VideoRick Mercer Report Season 8 - Episode 19 Mar 29, 2011 | 22:29Rick checks out the abundant moose population in Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland. Then he's off to the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George, and Espanola High School in Ontario, to acknowledge the top fund-raisers in the annual Spread the Net Student Challenge.
Mar 22, 2011 | 22:28Rick Mercer Report Season 8 - Episode 18 VideoRick Mercer Report Season 8 - Episode 18 Mar 22, 2011 | 22:28Tonight Rick is at Toronto's Air Canada Centre to help the crew convert the building from a Maple Leafs to a Raptors game---from hockey to basketball--in just six hours. He is also at Brentwood College School, in Mill Bay, BC to join the rowing team.
Mar 15, 2011 | 22:31Rick Mercer Report Season 8 - Episode 17 VideoRick Mercer Report Season 8 - Episode 17 Mar 15, 2011 | 22:31Rick is in Niagara Falls where he joins the crew of the Niagara Tunnel Project, an enormous tunnel boring project around the Falls (10 kilometers long; 14 meters wide). Rick finds out how to run 'Big Becky', the largest tunnel-boring machine in the world.
Feb 22, 2011 | 22:28Rick Mercer Report Season 8 - Episode 16 VideoRick Mercer Report Season 8 - Episode 16 Feb 22, 2011 | 22:28Rick is at the Pet Fun Fest in Toronto where he joins hundreds of dogs competing in dancing routines, water plunging, and other canine challenges. Then he's off to Gananoque, Ontario for Pondarama, where he participates in the Thousand Island Pond Hockey Championship and World Pond Curling Championship.
Feb 15, 2011 | 22:30Rick Mercer Report Season 8 - Episode 15 VideoRick Mercer Report Season 8 - Episode 15 Feb 15, 2011 | 22:30Rick heads to Yellowknife to check out how Buffalo Airways of the series 'Ice Pilots NWT' supplies isolated communities across the north in sub-zero temperatures. He's also in Halifax with our top young athletes for the Canada Winter Games.
Feb 8, 2011 | 22:24Rick Mercer Report Season 8 - Episode 14 VideoRick Mercer Report Season 8 - Episode 14 Feb 8, 2011 | 22:24Tonight Rick participates in the 64th annual Queens University Model Parliament in the actual House of Commons in Ottawa. He is Speaker of the House and then learns what it takes to be a parliamentary page. He also goes to Edmonton for the Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race hosted by the University of Alberta and featuring students from across the country.
Jan 25, 2011 | 22:22Rick Mercer Report Season 8 - Episode 13 VideoRick Mercer Report Season 8 - Episode 13 Jan 25, 2011 | 22:22Rick goes to a heavy construction machinery school in Morrisburg, Ontario where he learns how to operate a tower crane and drive an enormous bulldozer. Later he visits The Weather Network for on-the-job training with Chris St Clair and other forecasters.
Jan 18, 2011 | 22:25Rick Mercer Report Season 8 - Episode 12 VideoRick Mercer Report Season 8 - Episode 12 Jan 18, 2011 | 22:25Rick goes to the Queen's Park legislative building in Toronto to see what a day is like in the life of David Onley, Ontario's first Lieutenant-Governor with a visible disability. Rick also checks out the vintage snowmobile races in Kincardine, ON.
Jan 11, 2011 | 22:28Rick Mercer Report Season 8 - Episode 11 VideoRick Mercer Report Season 8 - Episode 11 Jan 11, 2011 | 22:28Rick is in Herring Cove, Nova Scotia where he and Ron James have a frigid New Year's Day Polar Bear Dip in the ocean. He is accompanied by blind author Ryan Knighton on a visit to the Vancouver Circus School where they learn trapeze, trampoline, and juggling skills.
Nov 16, 2010 | 22:27Rick Mercer Report Season 8 - Episode 7 VideoRick Mercer Report Season 8 - Episode 7 Nov 16, 2010 | 22:27Rick goes to Calgary's Canada Olympic Park where he goes zip-lining with Jann Arden, Olympian Kyle Shewfelt, and new mayor Naheed Nenshi and helps celebrate Shewfelt's induction into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.
Nov 9, 2010 | 22:25Rick Mercer Report Season 8 - Episode 6 VideoRick Mercer Report Season 8 - Episode 6 Nov 9, 2010 | 22:25Rick is in Craigellachie, BC for the 125th anniversary of the driving of 'the last spike' that marked the completion of the cross-country railroad. He learns how to handle a train and gets a lesson in spike driving from the world champion.