Rick Mercer Report - Season 9
Season 9
Network
DatesSep 13, 2011 - Apr 3, 2012
Episodes
Season 9Episode 130 min
September 13, 2011
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.
Sep 13, 2011
Season 9Episode 230 min
September 20, 2011
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.
Sep 20, 2011
Season 9Episode 330 min
September 27, 2011
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.
Sep 27, 2011
Season 9Episode 430 min
October 4, 2011
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.
Oct 4, 2011
Season 9Episode 530 min
October 11,2011
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.
Oct 11, 2011
Season 9Episode 630 min
October 25, 2011
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.
Oct 25, 2011
Season 9Episode 730 min
November 1, 2011
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.
Nov 1, 2011
Season 9Episode 830 min
November 8, 2011
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.
Nov 8, 2011
Season 9Episode 930 min
November 29, 2011
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.
Nov 29, 2011
Season 9Episode 1030 min
December 6, 2011
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.
Dec 6, 2011
Season 9Episode 1130 min
January 10, 2012 (Best of 2011)
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.
Jan 10, 2012
Season 9Episode 1230 min
January 17, 2012
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.
Jan 17, 2012
Season 9Episode 1330 min
January 24, 2012
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.
Jan 24, 2012
Season 9Episode 1430 min
January 31, 2012
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.
Jan 31, 2012
Season 9Episode 1530 min
February 14, 2012
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.
Feb 14, 2012
Season 9Episode 1630 min
Febuary 21, 2012
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.'
Feb 21, 2012
Season 9Episode 1730 min
February 28, 2012
Rick hits the ice with the Winnipeg Jets hockey team in Winnipeg, MB and competes in the 24-hour "Numb Bum" motorcycle race on ice in Sandy Beach, AB.
Feb 28, 2012
Season 9Episode 1830 min
March 20, 2012
In tonight's all-new show Rick is in Victoria training with Canada's Olympic swimming team as they prepare for the London Summer Olympics and medalist Ryan Cochrane gives him some special tips. He also turns up at the Purina National Dog Show in Mississauga, ON and vies for 'Best in Show' with a giant English mastiff.
Mar 20, 2012
Season 9Episode 1930 min
March 27, 2012
Rick is in Quebec City to check out the annual Crashed Ice Championship Race that is skated at breakneck speeds down winding streets. Then he is at the General Motors Automotive Centre of Excellence in Oshawa, ON. where new cars are tested for safety and durability in all climate conditions from severe cold to sweltering heat.
Mar 27, 2012
Season 9Episode 2030 min
April 3, 2012
(Season Finale) Rick attends celebration festivities at the winning schools in the annual Mercer Report Spread the Net Student Challenge. Highlights include an extreme dodge ball game in Quispamsis, New Brunswick; African drumming in Peterborough, Ontario; and at McGill University Rick drives a 'Baja' off-road car on campus.
Apr 3, 2012
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