by Matthew Coutts | Aug 3, 2026 | From Our President
I’m writing this on a park bench in downtown Vancouver, surrounded by people and feeling completely anonymous. It’s mid-July. We came into the city to visit family and catch a game. I’d been staring at large screens at a busy brewpub in a quickly-gentrifying downtown...
by Matthew Coutts | Nov 7, 2025 | From Our President
To the Honourable Josie Osborne, BC Minister of Health I am a resident of Pender Island, a community of about 3,000 people – though, I swear it more than doubles over the summer. We host thousands of other British Columbians on day trips, weekend getaways, or while...
by Matthew Coutts | Sep 27, 2025 | From Our President
I gave myself an impossible task last month, and I knew from the start it was doomed to fail. As we finished September’s issue of The Pender Post – an issue I’ll acknowledge only after the fact had a rather auspicious number – I was reviewing the Calendar of Events....
by Matthew Coutts | Aug 28, 2025 | From Our President
The answer is 10 years, I’d been told. Though I’ve also heard seven is the baseline; and one ambitious would-be local claimed to have done it in three. Another woman, who first set foot on Pender Island some 14 years ago, suggested it was not so much the length of...
by Matthew Coutts | May 31, 2025 | From Our President
The Pender Post is taking a significant step forward this month, with the unveiling of our new website, a modernized update to our online presence for the benefit of our valued readers. Unveiled in conjunction with our June 2025 issue, The Pender Post homepage now...
