1. September 26, 2017
Rick goes to Ottawa and trains with part of Team Canada headed for the Invictus Games in Toronto.
Rick goes to Ottawa and trains with part of Team Canada headed for the Invictus Games in Toronto.
Rick is in PEI where he helps with maintenance work on the Confederation Bridge.
Rick goes to a picnic with 200 rescued Golden Retrievers in North Kawartha, ON.
Rick is in BC's Okanagan Valley for the Festival of the Grape where he does some stomping.
Rick joins the student crew on the tall ship Playfair and sails across Lake Ontario, before going to the University of British Columbia to check out their cutting-edge research projects.
Rick and Jann Arden explore the Calgary Zoo and here they are at the Land of Lemurs, an endangered animal from Madagascar.
Rick goes to Nunavut and the Shipwreck Festival at Gjoa Haven near where the Franklin Expedition's 'lost ships' were found.
Rick is in Ferrryland NL helping to bring a flock of sheep across the water to the mainland.
Rick does maintenance work on the Coast Guard's communication tower on Mayne Island, B.C.
Rick is in Niagara Falls where he helps set up for the 35th Annual Winter Festival of Lights - Canada's largest illumination festival.
Top items from last year including Rick's visit to Inuvik, NWT for the Sunrise Festival, his tall ship sailing lesson across Lake Ontario, plus the tribute to Gord Downie, and much more!
Rick goes to Cirque du Soleil headquarters in Montreal to see how their shows are put together, and then he's off to the University of Victoria where he finds out what it takes to be an opera singer.
Rick checks out the action at the North American International Motorcycle Supershow in Mississauga, ON.
Rick boards an ice-breaking vessel in Toronto Harbour and learns how to keep the shipping lanes open, and then he's at the Interior Design Show checking out the latest from Canada's top designers.
A special look back at The Mercer Report's coverage of the Winter Olympics over many occasions - and includes an interview with CBC 2018 Winter Olympic broadcaster Scott Russell. Here's Rick with our flag bearers Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue.
Rick is at Toronto's Ryerson University School of Performance where he joins the cast of the pantomime "Jack and the Beanstalk."
Rick joins country music star Brett Kissel's cross-country tour and finds out what it takes to be a roadie (they are in London, ON).
Rick is in Lindsay, Ontario for the annual Kawartha Cup SnowCross Races where he races snowmobiles, and then heads to Barrie to help train chickens.
Rick is in Halifax dancing with the Maritime Bhangra Group.
Rick learns to pilot a helicopter in North Bay, ON.
Rick visits the winning schools in his annual Spread the Net Student Challenge. Here he is at Holy Names Catholic High School in Windsor, ON. He also goes to winning schools in Halifax, NS and Georgetown and Kincardine, ON.
Rick ends his fifteen-season record-breaking run on CBC with a look back at some of the most memorable moments of his adventures across Canada from coast-to-coast-to-coast and with a final rant.