Rick Mercer Report - Season 15
Season 15
Episodes
September 26, 2017
Rick trains with Invictus Games athletes; Rick visits a wildlife centre on Vancouver Island.
October 3, 2017
Tonight Rick is in PEI helping with maintenance on the Confederation Bridge and then he's off to Kingston, ON. for the Sea Cadet National Regatta.
October 10, 2017
Rick goes on a picnic with hundreds of rescued golden retrievers; Rick helps paint some of the last grain elevators in the country.
October 17, 2017
Rick operates the locks on the Rideau Canal; in BC's wine country, Rick stomps grapes at the Festival of the Grape.
October 24, 2017
Rick sails across Lake Ontario on the Playfair; Rick visits the University of British Columbia to see its cutting-edge research projects.
November 07, 2017
Rick and Jann Arden visit the Calgary Zoo.
November 14, 2017
Rick goes in search of a lost ship in the Arctic Ocean; Rick attends Gjoa Haven's Shipwreck Festival.
November 21, 2017
Rick helps transport sheep in Ferryland, Newfoundland; Rick joins construction workers in Toronto.
November 28, 2017
Rick helps with the goats, sheep and Jack Russell terriers at Toronto's Royal Winter Fair; Rick checks out the Coast Guard's communication system.
December 5, 2017
Rick helps at the Winter Festival of Lights in Niagara Falls; Rick visits The Rooms, a cultural centre in St. John's, Nfld.
Best of the Mercer Report 2017
Top items from the year including Rick's visit to the Sunrise Festival in Inuvik, NWT, his tall ship sailing lesson on Lake Ontario and the Gord Downie tribute are featured.
January 16, 2018
Rick goes to Cirque du Soleil headquarters in Montreal to see their show put together then heads to the University of Victoria to find out what it takes to become an opera singer.
January 23, 2018
Rick is at Edmonton's Deep Freeze Byzantine Winter Festival where he races a deep freezer through city streets and gets some dance lessons. Later he checks out the action at the North American International Motorcycle Supershow in Mississauga, Ontario.
January 30, 2018
Rick boards an ice-breaking vessel in Toronto Harbour and learns how to keep the shipping lanes open then visits the Interior Design Show to check out the latest from Canada's top designers
February 6, 2018
Rick checks in with athletes headed to another Winter Olympics including flag bearers Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue, Patrick Chan, Meghan Tandy, Kallie Humphries, Jessie Lumsden and more. He also chats with CBC Winter Olympics broadcaster Scott Russell.
February 27, 2018
Rick checks out the unique winter activities at The Forks in Winnipeg and heads to Toronto's Ryerson University School of Performance for singing, dancing and acting classes before taking the stage.
March 6, 2018
Rick joins country singer Brett Kissel's national tour in London, Ont.; and later checks out the Viking exhibit at Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum with comedian Ron James.
March 13, 2018
Rick heads to Lindsay, Ont., for the annual Kawartha Cup Snowcross Races. Later, he goes to Barrie to help train chickens.
March 20, 2018
Rick joins the dance troupe Maritime Bhangra in Halifax, and later goes to North Bay, Ont., to visit the Nipissing Trackers, who teach special-needs children how to ski.
March 27, 2018
Rick goes to North Bay, Ont., to learn how to fly a helicopter. Later, he checks out an engineering firm in Guelph, Ont., where buildings are tested in a wind tunnel.
April 03, 2018
Rick visits Holy Names Catholic High School in Windsor, Ontario, winners of the 'Spread the Net' challenge.
April 10, 2018: Series Finale
Rick ends his fifteen-season record-breaking run on CBC with a look back at some of the most memorable moments of his adventures across Canada from coast-to-coast-to-coast and with a final rant.
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