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September 30, 2008
Episode number: 1
Overview: Rick catches up with Canada's athletes at the paralympics in Beijing, and delivers all the election coverage you need.
October 7, 2008
Episode number: 2
Overview: Rick gets a bee beard in Langley, B.C. and hits the motocross track in Walton, Ontario.
October 14, 2008
Episode number: 3
Overview: 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
Episode number: 4
Overview: 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
Episode number: 5
Overview: 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
Episode number: 6
Overview: 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
Episode number: 7
Overview: 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
Episode number: 8
Overview: Rick is Feist's roadie on tour in St. John's Newfoundland, and goes behind-the-scenes at the Toronto Zoo.
December 2, 2008
Episode number: 9
Overview: Rick experiences zero gravity and visits Canada's leading recycling program in Edmonton.
January 6, 2009 (Best of 2008)
Episode number: 10
Overview: A look back at the year that was 2008.
January 13, 2009
Episode number: 11
Overview: Rick helps Michael Ignatieff move into Stornoway and flies with the Calgary Police Air Services Unit.
January 20, 2009
Episode number: 12
Overview: Rick tackles winter driving with the Motorsport Club of Ottawa and heads to McMaster University in Hamilton.
January 27, 2009
Episode number: 13
Overview: 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
Episode number: 14
Overview: Rick celebrates Chinese New Year in Toronto with lion dances, dim sum, wushu kung fu and more.
February 24, 2009
Episode number: 15
Overview: Rick tries to keep up with 88 year old Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion and hits Skate the Lake in Portland, Ontario.
March 3, 2009
Episode number: 16
Overview: 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
Episode number: 17
Overview: 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
Episode number: 18
Overview: 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
Episode number: 19
Overview: 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.