8x1 - September 21, 2010

September 21, 2010

Rick’s in Shanghai to visit Expo 2010 and the Canadian Pavilion. He gets a city tour with Dashan AKA Mark Rowswell, the most famous Canadian in China. He’s a comic who’s fluent in Mandarin.

8x2 - Sepember 28, 2010

September 28, 2010

Rick heads to Winnipeg and learns how to escape from a vehicle submerged in a lake.

8x3 - October 5, 2010

October 5, 2010

Rick goes toe-to-toe with Canadian boxing legend George Chuvalo in Toronto, ON and participates in an international plowing match in St. Thomas, ON.

8x4 - October 12, 2010

October 12, 2010

River-boarding on Alberta's Kananaskis River; motorcycle side-car racing in Shannonville, Ont.

8x5 - October 19, 2010

October 19, 2010

Rick is at the Fortress of Louisbourg in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia where he joins an archeological dig and finds out what it was like being an 18th century blacksmith, soldier and governor. He then goes to Red Deer, Alberta to train on a water ramp with some of Canada's top freestyle skiers.

8x6 - November 9, 2010

November 9, 2010

Rick is in Craigellachie, BC for the 125th anniversary of the driving of 'the last spike' that marked the completion of the cross-country railroad. He learns how to handle a train and gets a lesson in spike driving from the world champion. He also attends the 11th Annual Windsor Weekend drag race event at the Grand Bend Motorplex where he drives a souped-up dragster racer at breakneck speeds.

8x7 - November 16, 2010

November 16, 2010

Rick goes to Calgary's Canada Olympic Park where he goes zip-lining with Jann Arden, Olympian Kyle Shewfelt, and new mayor Naheed Nenshi and helps celebrate Shewfelt's induction into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.

8x8 - November 23, 2010

November 23, 2010

This week, Rick goes to Shannonville, ON where he attends "Skid School" and learns how to stop a transport truck on a slippery highway. Also, Rick participates in the potato harvest in PEI.

8x9 - November 30, 2010

November 30, 2010

Rick goes heli-logging in Seymour Inlet, BC and teams up with Habitat for Humanity and officers and cadets from the RCMP to build a house in Regina, SK.

8x10 - January 4, 2011

January 4, 2011

8x11 - January 11, 2011

January 11, 2011

8x12 - January 18, 2011

January 18, 2011

8x13 - January 25, 2011

January 25, 2011

8x14 - February 8, 2011

February 8, 2011

Tonight Rick participates in the 64th annual Queens University Model Parliament in the actual House of Commons in Ottawa. He is Speaker of the House and then learns what it takes to be a parliamentary page. He also goes to Edmonton for the Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race hosted by the University of Alberta and featuring students from across the country.

8x15 - February 15, 2011

February 15, 2011

8x16 - February 22, 2011

February 22, 2011

8x17 - March 15, 2011

March 15, 2011

Rick is in Niagara Falls where he joins the crew of the Niagara Tunnel Project, an enormous tunnel boring project around the Falls (10 kilometers long; 14 meters wide). Rick finds out how to run 'Big Becky', the largest tunnel-boring machine in the worl

8x18 - March 22, 2011

March 22, 2011

Tonight Rick is at Toronto's Air Canada Centre to help the crew convert the building from a Maple Leafs to a Raptors game---from hockey to basketball--in just six hours. He is also at Brentwood College School, in Mill Bay, BC to join the rowing team.