Why You Should Listen to This Episode: Roy Henry Vickers spent his 80th birthday thinking about the schoolhouse he was born in, and this year he's released a fifty-year retrospective built from more than 400 works of his art. Meanwhile, Kyle Gilson has spent nine fire seasons leading a BC Wildfire Service crew right here...

On this episode of Nonpartisan Hacks, Parksville City Councillors Sean Wood and Joel Grenz sit down with Shayla Day, founder and CEO of DayHomes Society, a nonprofit serving the Oceanside region with outreach, food support, housing navigation, and community coordination. Shayla also chairs the Oceanside Homeless Task Force and co-chairs the Oceanside Community Action...

Kim Wilkinson is a mother and Grief Recovery Specialist who lost her 22-year-old son, Tristan, to a drug overdose in November 2019. Through that loss, Kim discovered healing, recovery and transformation, and now works with others facing mental health challenges, PTSD, addiction and trauma as they move from suffering to empowerment. In this conversation with...

Download and print colouring pages featuring Captain Dave and the Mellow Submarine at the haunted shipwreck!: https://bit.ly/S2EP44ColouringPages What's really hiding inside an old sunken ship near Nanaimo? Fog rolls in over the water near Nanaimo, and Larry the Lobster is convinced it's the perfect day for a ghost story. When Captain Dave mentions an old shipwreck resting nearby,...

In Dodge City, an old man named Charlie spends his days parked outside the Dodge House, spinning yarns to anyone who'll sit still long enough to listen. His favourite subject is a legendary gunfighter called Rio Joe, a man Charlie swears he once stood shoulder to shoulder with. Most folks roll their eyes and...

Why You Should Listen to This Episode: Harry Manx opens up about a life that took him from the Isle of Man to busking in Europe and Japan, and into the studio for his new album Falling Upwards, out this August as he tours Vancouver Island. Jen Bate of the McMillan Arts Centre shares what's coming to Parksville...

A Public Information Meeting will be held at the Bradley Centre on July 6,...

Due to an emergency event at a Regional District of Nanaimo (RDN) solid waste...