Logo
Ontario Liberal Seniors’ Commission (OLSC)
Search
Volunteers
Volunteers

Sign up

Get started!

Resources

Coming Soon!

Join OLP
Resources
Resources

Regional VPs & Coordinators

Contact Info

PlAs

OLP Site List

Senior Reps

Conact Info

Seniors Resources

Events
About
Log In
Oliver Buchannon
OLSC Team

Ontario Liberal Party Commission Team Member

Latest

What Manitoba’s seniors teach Ontario about online banking risks

Mar 27, 2026

•

4 min read

What Manitoba’s seniors teach Ontario about online banking risks

The Manitoba story is every Ontario senior’s quiet nightmare: you open your online banking and see a debt that does not feel like yours, but the calls and letters insist that it is.

OLSC Team
OLSC Team

Latest

Handyman initiative in Guelph puts safety first for seniors

Mar 26, 2026

•

4 min read

Handyman initiative in Guelph puts safety first for seniors

Sometimes the difference between staying in your own home and moving out is one loose step or a missing grab bar.

OLSC Team
OLSC Team

Latest

Ontario seniors are paying the price for Ford’s $36 billion choices

Mar 24, 2026

•

5 min read

Ontario seniors are paying the price for Ford’s $36 billion choices

Thirty-six billion dollars of Ontario government misspending is not a line in a spreadsheet; it is the closed ER at midnight, the cancelled college program, the senior waiting longer for home care, and Doug Ford needs to own responsibility for every one of those choices.

OLSC Team
OLSC Team

Latest

Ontario nurse practitioner funding is failing seniors when they need it most

Mar 23, 2026

•

4 min read

Ontario nurse practitioner funding is failing seniors when they need it most

Picture an 80-year-old in Kingston, sitting at the kitchen table, wondering if they can afford an annual fee just to see a primary care provider for their heart meds. That is what Ontario’s delay on publicly funding nurse practitioners really looks like in a senior’s life.

OLSC Team
OLSC Team

Latest

Ontario’s EMR system can protect seniors or repeat old mistakes

Mar 20, 2026

•

5 min read

Ontario’s EMR system can protect seniors or repeat old mistakes

A fall, a siren, a rushed trip to the emergency room. The senior arrives confused and in pain. The doctor asks about medications, allergies, past surgeries. No list. No record that follows them. In that silence, care gets slower and more dangerous than it needs to be.

OLSC Team
OLSC Team

Latest

How proactive home care can let more Ontarians age at home

Mar 19, 2026

•

5 min read

How proactive home care can let more Ontarians age at home

“Too frail for home, not sick enough for palliative.” When an older Ontarian hears that, it is not a diagnosis, it is a sentence to hospital hallways instead of their own kitchen table.

OLSC Team
OLSC Team

Latest

Multi-generational housing can help seniors stay close to family

Mar 17, 2026

•

5 min read

Multi-generational housing can help seniors stay close to family

A senior living on a fixed income in Scarborough should not have to choose between paying the rent and buying groceries, or between staying close to family and being pushed out of the neighbourhood she built her life in.

OLSC Team
OLSC Team

Latest

Why Ontario must choose people not prisons in the next budget

Mar 16, 2026

•

5 min read

Why Ontario must choose people not prisons in the next budget

A government that can design a brand-new jail to the last brick can also design a home care system that does not leave an 82-year-old waiting by the door, wondering if today is the day help simply does not show up.

OLSC Team
OLSC Team

Latest

Northern Ontario’s roads are a lifeline for aging at home

Mar 12, 2026

•

5 min read

Northern Ontario’s roads are a lifeline for aging at home

A bridge washed out on a winter road is not just a gap in the gravel. For a senior in northern Ontario waiting on a hot meal, a medical appointment, or a visit from their grandkids, it is a wall of silence.

OLSC Team
OLSC Team

Latest

From food line to lifeline for 1 in 5 seniors

Mar 11, 2026

•

5 min read

From food line to lifeline for 1 in 5 seniors

One in 5 Canadians over 50 is living at a standard of living comparable to the poverty line, and in Ontario that quiet statistic shows up in the most basic place of all: the grocery bag a senior can no longer afford to fill.

OLSC Team
OLSC Team

Latest

Why chronic disease management starts years before a diagnosis

Mar 9, 2026

•

4 min read

Why chronic disease management starts years before a diagnosis

A major illness used to be something people braced for in their seventies. Now projections show millions of Ontarians, including people in their thirties and forties, living with complex chronic disease by 2040. If that does not shake policy makers awake, nothing will. Care needs to begin sooner, long before an ambulance, a stretcher, and a hospital corridor become the only options.

OLSC Team
OLSC Team

Latest

Beyond Toronto, seniors deserve livable communities in every corner of Ontario

Mar 6, 2026

•

6 min read

Beyond Toronto, seniors deserve livable communities in every corner of Ontario

Imagine an older neighbour on a gravel road outside Uxbridge, watching the accessible van that used to come every week appear less and less often, until medical appointments start to feel like a luxury instead of a right.

OLSC Team
OLSC Team

Latest

Ontario seniors can lead a backyard biodiversity revolution

Mar 5, 2026

•

6 min read

Ontario seniors can lead a backyard biodiversity revolution

Older Ontarians are often treated as if they are an obstacle to climate action, when in reality, many are already quietly walking the trails, reading the reports, and waiting for someone to ask them to lead.

OLSC Team
OLSC Team

Latest

Empowering seniors to outsmart modern scammers in Ontario

Mar 3, 2026

•

4 min read

Empowering seniors to outsmart modern scammers in Ontario

Picture an Ontario grandmother answering the phone, heart pounding as a trembling voice begs for bail money, while a stranger on the line quietly tests just how alone she feels.

OLSC Team
OLSC Team

Latest

Building a province that lets seniors stay active and proud

Mar 2, 2026

•

5 min read

Building a province that lets seniors stay active and proud

Active living for seniors in Ontario is not a lifestyle perk; for many older neighbours, it is the thin line between confidence and quiet despair.

OLSC Team
OLSC Team

Latest

Ontario seniors deserve honesty about Ring of Fire risks

Feb 26, 2026

•

5 min read

Ontario seniors deserve honesty about Ring of Fire risks

A mine cannot repair broken trust. It can fill trucks, feed smelters and move markets, but if people on the land feel ignored or expendable, every new road cut into the muskeg just deepens the wound.

OLSC Team
OLSC Team

Latest

Thriving small towns are Ontario’s quiet retirement advantage

Feb 24, 2026

•

4 min read

Thriving small towns are Ontario’s quiet retirement advantage

Retirement is not only about what sits in a savings account; it is about the streets, clinics, parks, and neighbours a person wakes up to every morning.

OLSC Team
OLSC Team

Latest

How OSAP cuts risk hollowing out Ontario’s future workforce

Feb 23, 2026

•

4 min read

How OSAP cuts risk hollowing out Ontario’s future workforce

A province cannot cut its way to prosperity by closing the door on its own kids.

OLSC Team
OLSC Team

Latest

Rethinking transportation for Ontario seniors starts on our rural roads

Feb 20, 2026

•

4 min read

Rethinking transportation for Ontario seniors starts on our rural roads

A senior in a small Ontario town can plan her pills, her meals, even her budget, but she cannot plan a ride that does not exist.

OLSC Team
OLSC Team

Latest

Ontario seniors are still hurting after the pandemic

Feb 18, 2026

•

5 min read

Ontario seniors are still hurting after the pandemic

An 82-year-old in Scarborough's third winter after the pandemic, watching the streetlights flicker while the phone stays silent and the bottle on the counter feels like the easiest kind of company.

OLSC Team
OLSC Team

Latest

Aging in place or stuck in place in Ontario

Feb 17, 2026

•

4 min read

Aging in place or stuck in place in Ontario

Aging in place sounds gentle and dignified, until an Ontario senior sits at the kitchen table and realises they are not aging in place at all, they are stuck in place.

OLSC Team
OLSC Team

Latest

Aging gracefully in Ontario means taking adult vaccines seriously

Feb 14, 2026

•

5 min read

Aging gracefully in Ontario means taking adult vaccines seriously

Picture an Ontario emergency room in January: stretchers in hallways, exhausted nurses, and too many older patients struggling to breathe who never needed to be there in the first place.

OLSC Team
OLSC Team

Latest

Super-aged Canada, supercharged civic power

Feb 12, 2026

•

4 min read

Super-aged Canada, supercharged civic power

Canada is on track to cross the line that defines a “super-aged” society, with more than one in five people over 65. That simple fact quietly rewrites the future of every community in Ontario.

OLSC Team
OLSC Team

Latest

Family health teams as the front door for seniors care?

Feb 10, 2026

•

5 min read

Family health teams as the front door for seniors care?

A senior in Brampton with heart trouble should not have to choose between waiting months for a family doctor or spending the night in an overcrowded emergency room. The primary care gap in Ontario is now a daily reality for older people, and the only honest response is to rebuild family health teams around them.

OLSC Team
OLSC Team

Latest

Stop the secret deals and start listening on land use planning

Feb 5, 2026

•

5 min read

Stop the secret deals and start listening on land use planning

Ontario seniors know what broken trust feels like. They see packed emergency rooms, secretive land deals and a premier who listens more to insiders than to neighbours. A new charter for public consultation is not a slogan; it is a lifeline for people who need care close to home and a say in what happens to the land around them.

OLSC Team
OLSC Team
Load more

DISCLAIMER:  This content is partially produced with the help of AI tools and has been reviewed by OLSC Editors.

Quick Links

Volunteer

Account

Search

Socials

|

© 2026 Ontario Liberals Seniors' Commission.
Report abusePrivacy policyTerms of use
beehiivPowered by beehiiv