Rick Mercer Report: Season 6
Season 6 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Rick Mercer Report Season 5.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 6 Progress Shield
September 30, 2008
Sep 30, 2008 · 21 min
Rick catches up with Canada's athletes at the paralympics in Beijing, and delivers all the election coverage you need.
October 7, 2008
Oct 7, 2008 · 21 min
Rick gets a bee beard in Langley, B.C. and hits the motocross track in Walton, Ontario.
October 14, 2008
Oct 14, 2008 · 21 min
Rick hits the campaign trail with all the party leaders in planes, trains, automobiles (and bikes) on a cross-Canada election night extravaganza.
October 21, 2008
Oct 21, 2008 · 21 min
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.
October 28, 2008
Oct 28, 2008 · 21 min
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
November 4, 2008
Nov 4, 2008 · 21 min
Rick talks US politics with US Ambassador to Canada David Wilkins and trains as a stunt performer on the set of The Border.
November 18, 2008
Nov 18, 2008 · 21 min
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.
November 25, 2008
Nov 25, 2008 · 21 min
Rick is Feist's roadie on tour in St. John's Newfoundland, and goes behind-the-scenes at the Toronto Zoo.
December 2, 2008
Dec 2, 2008 · 21 min
Rick experiences zero gravity and visits Canada's leading recycling program in Edmonton.
January 6, 2009 (Best of 2008)
Jan 6, 2009 · 21 min
A look back at the year that was 2008.
January 13, 2009
Jan 13, 2009 · 21 min
Rick helps Michael Ignatieff move into Stornoway and flies with the Calgary Police Air Services Unit.
January 20, 2009
Jan 20, 2009 · 21 min
Rick tackles winter driving with the Motorsport Club of Ottawa and heads to McMaster University in Hamilton.
January 27, 2009
Jan 27, 2009 · 21 min
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.
February 3, 2009
Feb 3, 2009 · 21 min
Rick celebrates Chinese New Year in Toronto with lion dances, dim sum, wushu kung fu and more.
February 24, 2009
Feb 24, 2009 · 21 min
Rick tries to keep up with 88 year old Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion and hits Skate the Lake in Portland, Ontario.
March 3, 2009
Mar 3, 2009 · 21 min
Rick goes ice climbing and learns about all things Finnish in Thunder Bay; then trains with the Cambridge Turbos of the National Ringette League.
March 10, 2009
Mar 10, 2009 · 21 min
Rick tracks and tags black bears in Ontario's Algonquin Park and joins the Canadian Coast Guard ice breaking operations in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec.
March 17, 2009
Mar 17, 2009 · 21 min
Rick visits the top fundraising schools in The Spread the Net Student Challenge and goes behind the scenes at the Shaw Festival.
March 24, 2009
Mar 24, 2009 · 21 min
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.