Rick Mercer
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Season 8
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Episode 121 min2010-09-21
September 21, 2010
Rick’s in Shanghai to visit Expo 2010 and the Canadian Pavilion. He gets a city tour with Dashan AKA Mark Rowswell, the most famous Canadian in China. He’s a comic who’s fluent in Mandarin.
Episode 221 min2010-09-28
Sepember 28, 2010
Rick heads to Winnipeg and learns how to escape from a vehicle submerged in a lake.
Episode 321 min2010-10-05
October 5, 2010
Rick goes toe-to-toe with Canadian boxing legend George Chuvalo in Toronto, ON and participates in an international plowing match in St. Thomas, ON.
Episode 421 min2010-10-12
October 12, 2010
River-boarding on Alberta's Kananaskis River; motorcycle side-car racing in Shannonville, Ont.
Episode 521 min2010-10-19
October 19, 2010
Rick is at the Fortress of Louisbourg in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia where he joins an archeological dig and finds out what it was like being an 18th century blacksmith, soldier and governor. He then goes to Red Deer, Alberta to train on a water ramp with some of Canada's top freestyle skiers.
Episode 621 min2010-11-09
November 9, 2010
Rick 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. He also attends the 11th Annual Windsor Weekend drag race event at the Grand Bend Motorplex where he drives a souped-up dragster racer at breakneck speeds.
Episode 721 min2010-11-16
November 16, 2010
Rick 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.
Episode 821 min2010-11-23
November 23, 2010
This week, Rick goes to Shannonville, ON where he attends "Skid School" and learns how to stop a transport truck on a slippery highway. Also, Rick participates in the potato harvest in PEI.
Episode 921 min2010-11-30
November 30, 2010
Rick goes heli-logging in Seymour Inlet, BC and teams up with Habitat for Humanity and officers and cadets from the RCMP to build a house in Regina, SK.
Episode 1021 min2011-01-04
January 4, 2011
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Episode 1121 min2011-01-11
January 11, 2011
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Episode 1221 min2011-01-18
January 18, 2011
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Episode 1321 min2011-01-25
January 25, 2011
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Episode 1421 min2011-02-08
February 8, 2011
Tonight 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.
Episode 1521 min2011-02-15
February 15, 2011
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Episode 1621 min2011-02-22
February 22, 2011
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Episode 1721 min2011-03-15
March 15, 2011
Rick 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 worl
Episode 1821 min2011-03-22
March 22, 2011
Tonight 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.
Episode 1921 min2011-03-29
March 29, 2011
Rick 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.
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