by Matthew Coutts | Aug 28, 2026 | From Our President
Cooperation can be political. Collaboration can be a form of protest. Cohesion, an act of defiance. That is perhaps a radical statement from the president of the Pender Post Society, an organization dedicated to both fostering cooperation and avoiding divisive...
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...
