Rick Mercer Report

Rick is in Ottawa to try Ice Dragon Boat Racing with an all-female team, and then he heads to Parliament Hill to help build a temporary House of Commons as restoration begins.

The best of the Mercer Report 2016; Rick cares for a polar bear cub; Rick goes paragliding in B.C.

Rick attends the Polar Plunge in Edmonton; on the job with the Edmonton Police Service.

Rick tests and maintains the ice highway between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk; Rick goes to an indoor skiing and snowboarding facility in Vaughan, Ontario.

Rick joins in at the annual Sunrise Festival in Inuvik, N.W.T.; at Westpark Healthcare Centre, Rick learns how prosthetics are made and worn.

Rick learns to play broomball; at the annual pet show in Mississauga, Rick plays Santa.

A society re-creates the medieval world; Rick judges a cheese-making competition in Belleville.

Rick trains with Ontario's air ambulance brigade and a bike polo team.

Rick goes paragliding in Revelstoke, B.C.; a charity organization in Toronto builds ramps to make the city accessible for all.

In Kamloops, Rick joins the BC Search Dog Association for training; Rick attends the Morden Corn and Apple Festival.

Rick participates in the annual Fort Fright event at the most haunted place in Canada; Rick learns traditional wood-carving techniques in Haida Gwaii, B.C.

Rick tours the Gwaii Haanas National Park in Haida Gwaii, B.C.

Rick takes care of seals at Memorial University's Ocean Sciences Centre; Rick learns traditional Polish dances at the largest Polish festival in North America.

Rick joins Mermaids International at Stanley Park; Rick flies a two-person gyroplane.

Rick and singer/songwriter Jann Arden join the Calgary Stetson Show Band; Rick plays dodgeball in Edmonton.

Rick trains with Canada's competitive snowball-fighting team and participates in the world's largest snowball fight; a lesson on glass blowing.

Rick plays doctor-for-a-day at the University of Manitoba; Rick gets a baton twirling lesson from the Spectrum North Baton Club.

Rick practices with the Canadian Olympic beach volleyball team; Rick travels to Montreal for the annual Fête des neiges.

Rick goes to the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec to check out their amazing collection of artifacts and lends a hand setting up new exhibits.

Rick is in British Columbia for white water kayaking on the Chilliwack River and then he goes to New Brunswick to learn about sturgeon and caviar.

Watch a selection of the show's top items: including Rick's ride on a vintage Lancaster Bomber, and his visit to Variety Village, plus Justin Trudeau's escalator tumble.

Rick visits Pictou County, Nova Scotia to help cut down a Christmas Tree bound for the city of Boston.Rick also heads to Long Point, Ontario to learn about bird conservation at the Bird Studies Canada station.Skits: Christmas Ideas; New Credit Card Designed for CanadiansRant: Parliament's Back

Rick heads to the Town of Tilting on Fogo Island, Newfoundland and Labrador to fly homemade kites and visit the Fogo Island Inn.Rick then heads over to Joe Batt's Arm also on Fogo Island to participate in a Punt race.Skits: Murdoch Mysteries - The Origins of the Grey Cup; The Canada Post Community Mailbox Sale.Rant: Refugees

Rick goes Sturgeon fishing with Rick Hansen on the Fraser River in Mission, British Columbia. Rick also visits the Fall Cottage Life Show in Mississauga, Ontario.Skits: Community Mail Boxes; Good Eatz Diner's New Menu with No Processed MeatRant: Trudeau's To-Do List.

Rick visits the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Ontario and flies in an Avro Lancaster Bomber.Rick also heads to Amherst Island, Ontario for the Irish-Canadian Dry Stone Festival.Skits: The National talks with Colorado State Treasurer about the pitfalls of marijuana legalization. Canadian Council of Scientists, unmuzzled.Rant: Distracted Driving

Rick visits 2015 Fan Expo in Toronto, Ontario and also visits Bala, Ontario to try cable wakeboarding at What Wake Park.Skits: Pyramid Institute; New CBC series Kicking Canadians Out of Hospital Early; CBC's coverage of Cannon Fodder 2016Rant: Newspaper Endorsements

Rick visits the Nautical Institute at Port Hawkesbury's Nova Scotia Community College where he checks out marine safety training that includes a free fall lifeboat and wave pool.

Rick drives in the Red Bull Soap Box Race through the streets of downtown Montreal and then he's off to Georgetown, PEI for a clam-digging lesson.

Rick visits St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia to join a lively 'Get Out The Vote' rally encouraging students to vote in the upcoming federal election.

Rick is in Ottawa to check out the annual Winterlude Festival and then he’s off to the Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides training facility in Oakville, ON.

Rick is at the Calgary Zoo where he takes king penguins for a stroll and then he’s off to the Monster Jam Truck Rally in Edmonton.

Tonight Rick is in Saskatoon to celebrate Ukrainian New Year with traditional costumes, dancing, and food, then he's off to Lake Winnipeg for some ice fishing.

Tonight Rick is in New Brunswick at the Sabian Cymbal factory which supplies cymbals to top musicians worldwide. He and Sean Dalton, drummer with The Trews rock band, assist making cymbals and later Rick plays them at a Trews concert in Fredericton. Rick then heads off to Winnipeg for some cable snow-boarding.

Rick tries flyboarding in Alberta; gliding with the air cadets.

Tonight Rick's at Winter Woofstock in Toronto for all things dog-related, including a doggie fashion show, stupid dog tricks, the crowning of Mr. and Mrs. Canine Canada, and a selection of Christmas gifts for 'man's best friend', then he's off to Halifax where he helps Canada's oldest skating club celebrate its 150th anniversary.

Tonight Rick is on Sable Island, Nova Scotia to check out the legendary wild horses and other wildlife and then he's to train with Canada's National Cricket Team.

Rick joins rehearsal for the National Ballet of Canada's lavish Alice's Adventures in Wonderland where he tap dances with Mad Hatter, helps play the Cheshire Cat, hangs out with the White Rabbit, and chats with Artistic Director Karen Kain. Then it's off to Lindsay, ON for a logger sports competition, where Rick joins university and college students hewing logs, wielding chainsaws, and racing up poles with spikes on their feet.

Rick is student-for-a-day at the Coast Guard College in Sydney, Nova Scotia. He practices navigating a fast rescue craft and life-saving techniques on the water. He also turns up in London, ON and goes to bat in the Women's Intercollegiate Fast Pitch Championship.

Rick and opera star Measha Brueggergosman go whale watching on the Bay of Fundy in St Andrews, New Brunswick and Rick stays on the Bay of Fundy to go jet boating with New Brunswick Premier David Alward at the reversing falls near Saint John.

Tonight Rick goes to Canada's Wonderland and rides the nation's fastest roller coaster and then he's in Fraserville, ON for the Soap Box Derby.

Rick explores the newest recreation sport, Zorbing, with CBC's Over The Rainbow host Daryn Jones at Horseshoe Valley, ON. Rick goes to the Biodome in Montreal, P.Q.

Rick goes zip-lining with the Leader of the Opposition, Thomas Mulcair in Petty Harbour, NL. Rick goes Gliding with the Air Cadets in Netook, AB.

Rick goes to Cold Lake, Alberta and races F-18 fighters against Ferrari and Lamborghini race cars in support of Military Families. Rick also goes whitewater rafting on the Thompson River in B.C.

Rick experiences thrilling water adventures Flyboarding in Sylvan Lake, Alberta and later visits Science World in Vancouver

Rick is in Quebec City for the Winter Carnival where he joins the ice-canoeing team from HMCS Montcalm for a race across the St. Lawrence River. He also goes to Winnipeg to skate at The Forks, which holds the Guinness record as 'the longest rink in the world.'

In tonight's show Rick is in Ottawa where he visits Governor-General David Johnston for a vice-regal tour of Rideau Hall, and then he goes behind the scenes to see how the landmark 100 year-old Chateau Laurier Hotel operates.

Rick is in Summerside, PEI at Holland College’s Atlantic Police Academy where he submits to a lie detector test and does weapons training and then he’s in Toronto with Canada’s champion Olympic Trampoline Team.

In tonight's all-new show Rick goes to the Fire School at Lambton College in Sarnia, ON where he gains firefighting skills and joins the Firefighter Combat Challenge Team. He's also at the Humane Society in Charlottetown, PEI where he hangs out with the animals, microchips a cat, walks dogs and reads to the rabbits.

Tonight Rick visits The Republic of Doyle set in St John's where he and star Allan Hawco do some stunt driving in a vintage GTO. In Quebec's Gatineau Hills, Rick joins a Canadian Ski Patrol team to learn some rescue techniques.

Best of 2011 - Rick and Jann Arden take a hands-free'EdgeWalk' outside on the top of Toronto's 533 metre high CN tower. Rick also visits Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland to check on the moose population.

Rick is in Regina at the annual Canadian Western Agribition, Canada's largest agricultural marketplace, where he shampoos cows and auctions off goats and other livestock. In Aurora, Ontario he assists in dismantling and crushing cars at a recycling program.

Rick marches in Toronto's annual Santa Claus Parade and movie director Norman Jewison explains his role in saving the parade. Rick is in Hamilton, Ontario training with the police force's emergency response team on the waterfalls that dot the Niagara Escarpment.

Tonight Rick joins a crew constructing 200 foot-high transmission towers and connecting power lines across rural Ontario. Then he goes to Vancouver to train with Canada's National Powerchair Soccer Team as they prepare for the World Cup in France.

Tonight Rick is in Langford, BC where he trains with the Canadian National Rugby Team and then goes to the University of Victoria to shave off World Cup Rugby star Adam Kleeberger's immense beard for charity. Rick also ventures to Fergus, Ontario to ride with the Ontario Provincial Police Golden Helmets Precision Motorcycle Team.

Rick and opera star Measha Brueggergosman go whale watching on the Bay of Fundy in St Andrews, New Brunswick and Rick stays on the Bay of Fundy to go jet boating with New Brunswick Premier David Alward at the reversing falls near Saint John.

Tonight Rick is at the speedway in Brighton, Ontario where he participates in the Eve of Destruction by driving a trailer in a high speed race until it's demolished. He is also in Calgary at the High Country Carriage Club for the horse and carriage races, a sport Prince Philip developed.

Rick is at the Windsor International Air Show where his activities include flying a vintage World War II Harvard plane, parachuting with the Skyhawks, the Canadian Forces' elite team, and flying in a vintage aerobatic bi-plane.

Tonight Rick, Mike Holmes and David Suzuki install solar panels on the roof of a house in Oshawa, ON. and Rick drives a snowmobile across 400 feet of water at the Puddle Jump in Tilbury, ON, where he also takes an ATV into their mud bog.

Rick is at the Calgary Highland Games where he does the Scottish hammer throw, caber toss, performs with a drum and pipe band and helps border collies herd sheep. He also goes to Ayr, Ontario where he sets up and executes a fireworks extravaganza.

The new season starts with Rick and Jann Arden taking a hands-free 'EdgeWalk' outside on the top of Toronto's 533 metre high CN tower. Rick also goes snorkeling with salmon in Campbell River, BC.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

River-boarding on Alberta's Kananaskis River; motorcycle side-car racing in Shannonville, Ont.

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.

Rick heads to Winnipeg and learns how to escape from a vehicle submerged in a lake.

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.

Rick visits Calgary’s hotbed of Olympic training with Olympic medalist Kyle Shewfelt to find out how the cutting-edge ‘Own the Podium’ science program is preparing our athletes to win a record number of medals in Vancouver.

Tonight Rick goes west to check out bobsled action–he’s in Rossland, BC for Canada’s longest-running winter carnival and partakes in the homemade bobsled race down the frozen main street. Then he is in Calgary where our Olympic Women’s Bobsled team, headed by Kailie Humphries, shows him how it’s really done.

Tonight Rick is at the National Figure Skating Championship in London, ON. He tries synchronized skating and national Olympic-bound champs Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir give him an ice dance lesson. Later he’s off to Alberta’s Elk Island National Park for the annual bison round-up.

Tonight Rick is in Jasper National Park learning all about how the avalanche control and rescue team works and even experiences first-hand how ace rescue dog Starksy performs his duties. Later he goes on a date to the West Edmonton Mall with leader of the upstart Wild Rose Alliance party, Danielle Smith.

Rick is in Vancouver taking a pre-Olympic look at how the airport functions—he checks out baggage-handling, security, emergency services, and even helps getting birds off the runway. He also goes ice sailing on the Bay of Quinte in Trenton, Ontario.

A look back at the best reports of 2009 to start off 2010.

Tonight Rick is in Montreal to train and compete with the women of the Montreal Roller Derby; he follows with a trip to Grand Manan Island in the Bay of Fundy, for a lesson in lobster fishing.

Tonight Rick is in Edmonton for the 35th annual Canadian Finals Rodeo event. He joins the season’s top point-getters for this grand season finale — Rick barrel-races, does trick riding on a horse, and even helps to get the stock animals in order backstage. Later, he’s north of Toronto getting a fly-fishing lesson from a pro.

This week Rick is in London, ON training with members of Canada’s national wheelchair rugby team. Later, he goes to Toronto’s Royal Winter Fair and checks out some ‘super dogs’ in action — a wide variety of canines who dance, catch frisbees and perform other amazing feats.

This week Rick checks into the world of fashion at Toronto’s annual Fashion Week. He gets an overview from Jeanne Beker, chats with Canadian designers, and even joins the models on the runway. He is also in Burnaby, BC at Electronic Arts to see how video games are developed from start to finish.

Rick is in Niagara Falls indoor skydiving with Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson, and then they hang out at Lifeson’s Toronto bar where Rick gets a guitar lesson. Rick also goes behind the scenes on Parliament Hill to find out what makes the place tick— he changes the Peace Tower flag, conducts a tour, among other tasks.

Rick trains with the competitors of ``Battle of the Blades''; annual Giant Pumpkin Weight-Off and Boat Race.

Rick trains with a Sea King Squadron and participates in a naval boarding party; War of 1812 re-enactment.

Rick joins the crew of the legendary Bluenose II and then races three cars chained together.

Rick starts the season with a trip to Whistler, BC where he bungee jumps with Rick Hansen. This year marks the 25th anniversary of Hansen's 'Man in Motion' marathon wheelchair tour. Also, CHarmony - the online dating site for Conservatives, outtakes from Michael Ignatieff's ads and Rick Rants about the bloodsport of Canadian elections. Plus, Rick kicks off this year's Spread the Net Challenge.

Rick tries to keep up with 88 year old Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion and hits Skate the Lake in Portland, Ontario.

Rick celebrates Chinese New Year in Toronto with lion dances, dim sum, wushu kung fu and more.

Rick hits the slopes with senator and Olympic legend Nancy Greene in Sun Peaks, BC; then trains with the women's biathlon team in Canmore, Alberta.

Rick tackles winter driving with the Motorsport Club of Ottawa and heads to McMaster University in Hamilton.

Rick helps Michael Ignatieff move into Stornoway and flies with the Calgary Police Air Services Unit.

A look back at the year that was 2008.

Rick experiences zero gravity and visits Canada's leading recycling program in Edmonton.

Rick is Feist's roadie on tour in St. John's Newfoundland, and goes behind-the-scenes at the Toronto Zoo.

Rick gets a tailor-made suit -- Don Cherry style, and hangs out with half a billion in gold at the Royal Canadian Mint in Ottawa.

Rick talks US politics with US Ambassador to Canada David Wilkins and trains as a stunt performer on the set of The Border.

Rick visits former Prime Minister Paul Martin on his Quebec sheep farm and heads to Muskoka to shovel coal aboard North America's oldest steamship

Rick gets lost in a corn maze with a shaped based on the RMR in Thamesville, Ontario and battles forest fires in Kamloops with the BC Forest Service.

Rick hits the campaign trail with all the party leaders in planes, trains, automobiles (and bikes) on a cross-Canada election night extravaganza.

Rick gets a bee beard in Langley, B.C. and hits the motocross track in Walton, Ontario.

Rick catches up with Canada's athletes at the paralympics in Beijing, and delivers all the election coverage you need.

Off roading with the Premier. Cirque Du soleil in Toronto.

Rick gets to ride in a submarine and visits Bala, Ontario for the Cranberry Festival

Canoeing with Bob Rae. Everything you wanted to know about electoral reform but were not interested enough to ask.

Rick returns after a restful summer. He hopes you're ready for the ride, because it's going to be a long wild one.

Due to the current events nature of this political satire show, the summary will not be available until the show first airs.

Due to the current events nature of this political satire show, the summary will not be available until the show first airs.

In this episode, Rick hits the slopes with Canadian Conservative cabinet minister Helena Guergis and also visits and scrimmages with the Toronto Rock professional lacrosse team.

Rick visits Canadian Forces Edmonton, where he drives a tank, and he visits the women's volleyball team at the University of Alberta.

Rick visits with new Federal Liberal leader Stéphane Dion and his dog Kyoto, and Rick discusses the Federal Accountability Act.

Rick visits with the Peel Regional Police K-9 Unit and visits Ottawa, where he becomes Minister of Agriculture MP Chuck Strahl's driver for the day.

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Rick gets drum lessons from Rush's Neil Peart, MPs calendar, Candidate school, Garth Turner and income trusts, Kim Jong, Rick and Ralph Klein go harness racing, Rick's Rant for the week

Rick goes to Washington to meet with Frank McKenna and gets to learn what it takes to be a Firefighter.

Rick goes all Top Gun in a CF-18, Cheese Ad Spoof, Sleepover at 24 Sussex Drive, Peter MacKay Dog Food, Same Sex Pamphlet, Rick's Rant for the week, Minty Clean Air

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Chopping trees with the Leader of the Green Party, Bill's Carrot Juice and Spinach, David Emerson, Ignatieff, he's well placed, Oktoberfest with Chris Murphy, Rick's Rant for the week, Shame Based Future

Due to the current events nature of this political satire show, the summary will not be available until the show first airs.

Rick returns to season 4 of RMR at CBC. You need to watch to find out what is in store for us this year.

Rick gets to feel the head of a calf ... before it has even been born and Mendelson Joe paints Ricks portrait.

Rick learns how the sledge hockey team manages to play and find out what happened to the eBay offer.

For one week only, place a bid on the winning the Liberal Leadership race and meet Delivery-O's pizza.

Included some favorite scenes from this season and included a new rant.

Shirley Douglas does a charity commercial for the Liberals and a trailer for Brokeback Martin

Rick gets a chance to play basketball with the CIAU champions and we get a Liberal apology.

It's a special election night episode on Monday instead of Tuesday.

Rick gets down and dirty with the RCMP ride and shows just how anyone can make a smear campaign.

Election time means new ads for both the Conservatives and the Liberals.

Rick goes to Washington to meet with Frank McKenna and gets to learn what it takes to be a Firefighter.

Rick traveled to Northern Alberta to visit Fort McMurray (Boomtown), the home of Alberta's famous oil sands (the second largest known oil deposit in the world).

Rick goes to Winnipeg where he gets to meet Dr. Popsicle, and in Churchill a group of polar bears.

Rick Mercer pals around with Paul Martin. See why the Prime Minister is still in power as he lets us see a personality.

Watch to see Rick get pushed out of an airplane, and Stephen Harper in a more natural state.