Rick Mercer Report

2003 • CBC
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Season 12 episodes (17)

1 Ep 12-01: October 7, 2014
10/6/14
Season-only
Rick checks out Vancouver's Harbour Air, the largest all seaplane operation in the world and helps land a plane on a glacial lake. Then he heads to Drummond, NB to do some face first rappelling.
2 Ep 12-02: October 14, 2014
10/13/14
Season-only
Rick goes on a date with Jann Arden in Edmonton. They try paint balling and Rick discovers what it's like being her tour manager. Rick also turns up at Fredericton's annual New Brunswick Exhibition where he goes harness racing and learns how to carve with a chainsaw.
3 Ep 12-03: October 21, 2014
10/20/14
Season-only
Rick joins a Dalhousie University project tagging sharks in the ocean off Halifax and then he goes flour bombing with the Kingston Flying Club in Kingston, ON.
4 Ep 12-04: October 28, 2014
10/27/14
Season-only
Rick helps with the wheat harvest at a family farm in Camrose, Alberta and then heads to Barrington, Nova Scotia for a lesson in log-rolling.
5 Ep 12-05: November 4, 2014
11/3/14
Season-only
Rick is in Petty Harbour, Newfoundland cod jigging with singer Alan Doyle of Great Big Sea and then he's off to the Norwood Fall Fair in Ontario for lawn mower racing, taffy pulling, and fly ball races with dogs.
6 Ep 12-06: November 18, 2014
11/17/14
Season-only
Rick takes ballroom dance lessons at the Rocky Mountain Dancesport Grand Prix in Calgary and then he's off to Niagara Falls to join the Hornblower crew as the boat circles the Falls.
7 Ep 12-07: November 25, 2014
11/24/14
Season-only
Rick is in Burnaby, BC training with Canada's Women's National Soccer Team and gets tips from Olympic champ Christine Sinclair and then he's off to Nova Scotia to participate in the annual wild blueberry harvest.
8 Ep 12-08: December 2, 2014
12/1/14
Season-only
Rick visits the set of Republic of Doyle and takes a cameo role as the Mayor of St John's and also visits a Special Olympics training camp to try bowling and swimming with the athletes.
9 Ep 12-09: January 6, 2015
1/5/15
Season-only
Best of The Mercer Report - Rick and Jann Arden go rock-climbing in Calgary and then Rick goes to Chapman's Ice Cream Factory in Markdale, Ontario.
11 Ep 12-11: January 20, 2015
1/19/15
Season-only
Rick is in Whistler where he goes bobsledding with Olympians on the world's fastest track and then he's at Variety Village, Toronto, participating in activities at a world-class gym for people with disabilities.
12 Ep 12-12: January 27, 2015
1/26/15
Season-only
Rick goes to Penticton, BC where he joins a precision jump rope skipping competition and then heads to New Brunswick to learn the art of making potato chips.
13 February 3, 2015
2/2/15
Season-only
Rick goes to Field, BC for the annual Yoho Blow Days celebration all about having fun in the winter with human bowling, relay races, and a unique variation on cross-country skiing and then he heads to Port Elgin, Ontario and jumps in the pool for a competition with the Saugeen Shore Life Saving Club.
14 February 10, 2015
2/9/15
Season-only
Rick goes to Ottawa to help set a Guinness World Record for making the most snowmen in an hour and then heads to the new Velodrome in Milton, ON. to join cyclists training for the upcoming Parapan Am games.
15 March 3, 2015
3/2/15
Season-only
Rick goes to Gravenhurst, Ontario, for the annual Winter Carnival and tries bed racing and puddle jumping on a frozen lake and then heads to Quebec to learn about the unique game of kin-ball where teams vie to keep a giant ball in motion.
16 March 10, 2015
3/9/15
Season-only
Rick is in Ottawa where he learns how to play The Peace Tower Carillon and then he's off to Gibsons, BC for a trapshooting lesson from world champ Susan Nattrass.
17 March 17, 2015
3/16/15
Season-only
Rick finds out how to build a cardboard boat when he joins students in Waterloo, ON. for an annual race and then he's to off to check in with athletes preparing for wheelchair races in the upcoming Parapan Am Games.
19 March 31, 2015
3/30/15
Season-only
Rick visits the three schools that won The Mercer Report's annual 'Spread the Net' Student Challenge.

About this show

RICK MERCER REPORT, an original CBC production, is an award-winning program featuring Canada's number-one political satirist, Rick Mercer. Rick's weekly helping of topical satire, funny takes on the week's top news reports, plus stories from his cross-Canada travel itinerary, have made the show a perennial audience favourite.

Ratings and reviews

4.8
41 reviews
A Google user
February 27, 2015
Funny, thought provoking show!
Jerry George
May 14, 2015
But why pay Google when the CBC website allows you to stream for free?
Pauline Underwood
June 7, 2015
Excellent