Rick Mercer Report Season 6, Episode 5: October 28, 2008

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September 30, 2008

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

21 min

2

October 7, 2008

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

21 min

3

October 14, 2008

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

21 min

4

October 21, 2008

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.

21 min

5

October 28, 2008

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

21 min

6

November 4, 2008

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

21 min

7

November 18, 2008

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.

21 min

8

November 25, 2008

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

21 min

9

December 2, 2008

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

21 min

10

January 6, 2009 (Best of 2008)

A look back at the year that was 2008.

21 min

11

January 13, 2009

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

21 min

12

January 20, 2009

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

21 min

13

January 27, 2009

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.

21 min

14

February 3, 2009

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

21 min

15

February 24, 2009

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

21 min

16

March 3, 2009

Rick goes ice climbing and learns about all things Finnish in Thunder Bay; then trains with the Cambridge Turbos of the National Ringette League.

21 min

17

March 10, 2009

Rick tracks and tags black bears in Ontario's Algonquin Park and joins the Canadian Coast Guard ice breaking operations in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec.

21 min

18

March 17, 2009

Rick visits the top fundraising schools in The Spread the Net Student Challenge and goes behind the scenes at the Shaw Festival.

21 min

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March 24, 2009

Rick teams up with BC premier Gordon Campbell to try wheelchair curling and hits the slopes at Whistler with Canada's Para-Alpine Ski Team.

21 min