HeyJaredNonpartisan Hacks
Hosted by two Parksville city councillors, Nonpartisan Hacks brings you behind the scenes of how government really works — without the spin, the shouting, or the partisanship.We dive into the practical, the absurd, and the oddly inspiring world of local government, while…
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 4
- Latest publication
- Aug 15, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 10, 2026
Latest episodes
Chair and Chief Councillor John Jack (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Joel Grenz and Sean Wood sit down with John Jack, known in his own language as Sayaač̓atḥ, who runs two governments at once: he's Chief Councillor of the Huu-ay-aht First Nations, a modern treaty nation on the west coast of Vancouver Island, and the elected Chair of the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District. Jack walks through what it actually took to design Huu-ay-aht's constitution from the ground up: a legislative and executive branch fused into one council, a hereditary leadership body that fu
On the Rails with Thomas Bevan of Island Corridor Foundation (opens the original)
Read excerpt
What does it actually take to bring 289 kilometres of century-old railway back to life? In this episode of Nonpartisan Hacks, Joel Grenz and Sean Wood take the show on the road — or rather, the rails — recording aboard a high rail vehicle rolling from Parksville to Coombs with returning guest Thomas Bevan, CEO of the Island Corridor Foundation. Bevan walks Joel and Sean through the history of the old rail corridor, from its origins as a resource-extraction line built on a 19th-century land grant
Scared to Live, Not Scared to Die: Shayla Day on Addiction and Recovery (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Shayla Day was homeless from age 11 to 21, addicted to narcotics by 16, and overdosed 44 times. Today she's helping to lead a regional response to homelessness. In this episode of Nonpartisan Hacks, Joel Grenz and Sean Wood sit down with Shayla Day, founder and CEO of Day Homes Society, a nonprofit serving the Oceanside region with outreach, food support, housing navigation, and community coordination. Day also chairs the Oceanside Homeless Task Force and co-chairs the Oceanside Community Action
Decoding Your Property Tax Bill (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Your city council raised taxes 5.8% this year. So why did your bill go up 13%? In this episode of Nonpartisan Hacks, Joel Grenz and Sean Wood pull apart the property tax bill that lands in every homeowner's mailbox each spring, and explain why it's really six or seven different bills stapled into one. Recorded on Sean's deck in Parksville, BC, the two councillors walk through who actually sets each line, why your assessment doesn't move your taxes the way you'd think, and what, if anything, you
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.