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. He also checks out the music and dancing at Cape Breton’s Celtic Colours Festival.

This week 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.

• From CBC: Rick Mercer joins It Gets Better campaign
  “Mercer, who grew up gay outside St. John’s, contributed a rant he recorded for The Rick Mercer Report in November 2007 when a gay Ontario youth killed himself after being taunted by bullies.” Read more.