Rick Mercer Report - Season 8

Rick Mercer Report - Season 8

Season 8

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DatesSep 21, 2010 - Mar 29, 2011
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Episodes

September 21, 2010
Season 8Episode 130 min

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.
Sep 21, 2010
Sepember 28, 2010
Season 8Episode 230 min

Sepember 28, 2010

Rick heads to Winnipeg and learns how to escape from a vehicle submerged in a lake.
Sep 28, 2010
October 5, 2010
Season 8Episode 330 min

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.
Oct 5, 2010
October 12, 2010
Season 8Episode 430 min

October 12, 2010

River-boarding on Alberta's Kananaskis River; motorcycle side-car racing in Shannonville, Ont.
Oct 12, 2010
October 19, 2010
Season 8Episode 530 min

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.
Oct 19, 2010
November 9, 2010
Season 8Episode 630 min

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.
Nov 9, 2010
November 16, 2010
Season 8Episode 730 min

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.
Nov 16, 2010
November 23, 2010
Season 8Episode 830 min

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.
Nov 23, 2010
November 30, 2010
Season 8Episode 930 min

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.
Nov 30, 2010
January 4, 2011
Season 8Episode 1030 min

January 4, 2011

Jan 4, 2011
January 11, 2011
Season 8Episode 1130 min

January 11, 2011

Jan 11, 2011
January 18, 2011
Season 8Episode 1230 min

January 18, 2011

Jan 18, 2011
January 25, 2011
Season 8Episode 1330 min

January 25, 2011

Jan 25, 2011
February 8, 2011
Season 8Episode 1430 min

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.
Feb 8, 2011
February 15, 2011
Season 8Episode 1530 min

February 15, 2011

Feb 15, 2011
February 22, 2011
Season 8Episode 1630 min

February 22, 2011

Feb 22, 2011
March 15, 2011
Season 8Episode 1730 min

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
Mar 15, 2011
March 22, 2011
Season 8Episode 1830 min

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.
Mar 22, 2011
March 29, 2011
Season 8Episode 1930 min

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.
Mar 29, 2011

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