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Rick Mercer
Sunday, June 24, 3:00 pm
Opening Ceremonies
"Canada: Coast to Coast"
  Carrie Doll
Monday, June 25, 11:30 am
SR/WA Recognition & Awards Luncheon
Luncheon Emcee
RICK MERCER chronicles, satirizes, and ultimately celebrates all that is great and irreverent about this country. Known as “Canada’s Unofficial Opposition,” Mercer is our most popular comic, a political satirist who knows exactly what matters to regular Canadians and what makes them laugh.

Rick Mercer’s top-rated, award-winning CBC show, The Rick Mercer Report—which routinely tramples even its American competitors in the ratings—features his trademark rants, hilarious (and informative) fake newscasts, commercial parodies, and comic encounters with famous Canadians, talking about Canada. More than any other comedian (or journalist for that matter), he talks to Canadian newsmakers with a refreshing candor, and is uniquely able to spin topical hilarity from the people and the things deeply embedded in the national consciousness. The Rick Mercer Report is currently in its 15th (and final) season.

Born in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Mercer has won over 25 Gemini Awards for his top-rated CBC series’ The Rick Mercer Report, Made in Canada, and This Hour has 22 Minutes. Mercer also starred in Rick Mercer’s Talking to Americans, which was watched by millions, attracted attention across North America, and remains the highest-rated comedy special in Canadian history. In 2014, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Mercer is the author of three national bestsellers, Streeters, The Rick Mercer Report: The Book, and 2012’s A Nation Worth Ranting About. Mercer will co-write the screenplay for High Alert, a political satire based on the 1966 Norman Jewison movie, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming.
  Born and raised in Fairview Alberta, Carrie ventured off to Calgary to pursue her post-secondary education. She graduated with an honors degree in Communications at the University of Calgary, and a diploma in Broadcast News from SAIT. She did an internship at ABC News in Lubbock Texas and began her Television career in Yorkton Saskatchewan. From there she worked at a variety of stations across Alberta before settling down in Edmonton where she anchored CTV news at 6pm for 13 years.

Over the years Carrie interviewed countless news makers locally, across the country, in the entertainment industry and politics including many premiers, prime ministers and US President Bill Clinton. Carrie believes in giving back to her community. She is the honorary chair of the YWCA Women of Distinction Awards and the Glenrose Hospital’s Courage Gala, she is on the board of the Edmonton Singing Christmas Tree Foundation and the Chair of the Stollery Women’s Network. She was honored as one of the top 100 citizens in our province during Alberta’s Centennial celebrations and chosen as Edmonton’s Woman of the Year in 2002.

Carrie maintains her greatest achievement in life so far is becoming a mother to her son Kasha and daughter Allegra. Together with her husband Stephen Petasky, they started “The Luxus group”, a professional management company that has ownership of over 40 properties around the world and more than 350 investors across Western Canada. As a family, they love to travel and spend time outdoors together.
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