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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Sep 28, 2010 | 22:22Rick Mercer Report Season 8 - Episode 2 VideoRick Mercer Report Season 8 - Episode 2 Sep 28, 2010 | 22:22This week Rick heads to Winnipeg where he learns how to escape from a vehicle submerged in a lake and then he joins Winnipeg's popular Goldeyes baseball team for a lesson and helps around the stadium.
Oct 5, 2010 | 22:25Rick Mercer Report Season 8 - Episode 3 VideoRick Mercer Report Season 8 - Episode 3 Oct 5, 2010 | 22:25Rick goes three rounds in the ring with former Canadian heavyweight boxing champion George Chuvalo. He also attends Canada's largest outdoor agricultural event, the 2010 International Plowing Match in St Thomas and joins the competition, rides with the Canadian Cowgirls, and even square dances with a tractor.
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.
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