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Oliver Buchannon
OLSC Team

Ontario Liberal Party Commission Team Member

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Lowering the screening age is only the first step for healthy aging

May 14, 2026

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Lowering the screening age is only the first step for healthy aging

Colorectal cancer is now showing up in people who still have kids in high school, not just in grandparents, and Ontario’s decision to start screening at 45 instead of 50 is a quiet shock to the system that older adults cannot afford to ignore.

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OLSC Team

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Ontario’s economy at half speed puts seniors at risk

May 12, 2026

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Ontario’s economy at half speed puts seniors at risk

When an economy runs at half speed, retirees feel it first in their stomachs, not in the stock tables.

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OLSC Team

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Ontario’s silver tsunami can rebuild trust in housing

May 11, 2026

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Ontario’s silver tsunami can rebuild trust in housing

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OLSC Team

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Dignifying care starts with treating PSWs as true professionals

May 8, 2026

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Dignifying care starts with treating PSWs as true professionals

The nightmare for many Ontario seniors is not a diagnosis, it is the moment someone decides their only option is a distant institution instead of dignified help at home.

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OLSC Team

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Grandparent scams are well-organized, Ontario needs to be too

May 7, 2026

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Grandparent scams are well-organized, Ontario needs to be too

The phone rings, a trembling voice says “Grandma, I am in trouble,” and within hours a lifetime of careful saving can vanish.

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OLSC Team

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Outcome measurement that keeps seniors at home and connected

May 5, 2026

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Outcome measurement that keeps seniors at home and connected

A senior’s dignity is not an abstraction; it is measured in whether they can stay housed, get to appointments, and still see friends. That is why outcome-based senior programs, guided by real data rather than slogans, are becoming a quiet test of Ontario’s values.

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OLSC Team

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Community health versus convenience at Canada’s largest garbage incinerator

May 4, 2026

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Community health versus convenience at Canada’s largest garbage incinerator

Ontario’s waste problem is not abstract for the seniors in Brampton who will wake up every morning and breathe whatever comes out of that stack.

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OLSC Team

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Closing the gap on senior dental care in Ontario

May 1, 2026

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Closing the gap on senior dental care in Ontario

An Ontario senior should not have to choose between fixing a broken tooth and buying fresh groceries, yet that is exactly what too many people are facing right now.

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OLSC Team

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What it takes to root out cronyism in Ontario

Apr 30, 2026

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What it takes to root out cronyism in Ontario

Public trust does not shatter in a single headline; it erodes every time people see insiders move to the front of the line while workers and seniors wait in the cold.

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OLSC Team

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Ontario seniors are the front line against senior loneliness

Apr 28, 2026

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Ontario seniors are the front line against senior loneliness

The hardest part for many Ontario seniors is not the quiet apartment or the empty driveway, it is the slow realization that half the names in their phone were held together by work schedules, family rituals, or habit, not by real care.

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OLSC Team

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Ontario Health Coalition shows the human cost of healthcare privatization

Apr 27, 2026

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Ontario Health Coalition shows the human cost of healthcare privatization

Imagine a senior in Waterloo, sitting on a hard plastic chair in a packed emergency room, while public money quietly drifts to for-profit clinics down the road.

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OLSC Team

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Ontario’s senior women deserve more than survival income

Apr 24, 2026

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Ontario’s senior women deserve more than survival income

$28,600 a year. On paper it is a statistic. In the life of an older Canadian woman, it is a grocery bill that keeps shrinking, a rent notice that feels heavier every month, a choice between new glasses and filling a prescription.

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OLSC Team

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The hidden power of sports and pets in healthy aging

Apr 23, 2026

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The hidden power of sports and pets in healthy aging

An 80 year old in borrowed ice time, tightening worn skate laces, should not be one of the most hopeful images in senior health policy, yet it is.

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OLSC Team

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From patients to partners in Ontario primary care

Apr 21, 2026

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From patients to partners in Ontario primary care

What happens when a health system treats seniors as visitors, not as partners?

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OLSC Team

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Ontario’s fiscal cliff is a senior care crisis in slow motion

Apr 20, 2026

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Ontario’s fiscal cliff is a senior care crisis in slow motion

Picture an 67-year-old in Hamilton staring at the ceiling at 3 a.m., not because of pain, but because he is wondering what happens to his home care if the province finally hits the fiscal wall.

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OLSC Team

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Reimagining home care for Ontario seniors with courage and technology

Apr 17, 2026

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Reimagining home care for Ontario seniors with courage and technology

The fear is not just of getting sick, it is of being shipped off to a hospital bed or faraway facility when all someone really wants is to stay at the kitchen table they know by heart.

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OLSC Team

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Stop pouring billions into buildings seniors do not want

Apr 16, 2026

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Stop pouring billions into buildings seniors do not want

Picture an 82-year-old in Scarborough staring at a packed suitcase by the door, not because of a vacation, but because a fall has triggered that awful question: is this the moment life gets handed over to an institution they never wanted?

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OLSC Team

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From coffee chats to Queen’s Park, seniors are shifting the balance

Apr 14, 2026

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From coffee chats to Queen’s Park, seniors are shifting the balance

There is a particular kind of heartbreak when seniors watch politics drift away from their daily reality, even as they carry the memories, sacrifices, and taxes that built this province.

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OLSC Team

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What Ontario seniors really want from housing and care

Apr 13, 2026

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What Ontario seniors really want from housing and care

A lot of Ontario seniors are lying awake at night, not because of aches and pains, but because they are terrified of being shipped off to an institution that feels nothing like home.

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OLSC Team

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Rebuilding connection after COVID for Ontario seniors

Apr 10, 2026

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Rebuilding connection after COVID for Ontario seniors

Across Canada, seniors’ halls went quiet during COVID-19, but the silence did not end with the lockdowns. It settled into living rooms, into empty club calendars, into the lives of organizers who never came back.

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OLSC Team

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When political ethics collapse, seniors’ services crumble

Apr 9, 2026

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When political ethics collapse, seniors’ services crumble

That is what patronage appointments really cost. Not just a headline about a former candidate getting a job, but a slow hollowing out of trust, of political ethics and of the services that keep seniors safe.

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OLSC Team

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How Ontario seniors can benefit from AI in healthcare now

Apr 7, 2026

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How Ontario seniors can benefit from AI in healthcare now

Picture an Ontario grandmother with dementia gripping her walker while her daughter quietly worries about the next fall, the next hospital trip, the next agonizing wait for help that never seems to come fast enough.

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OLSC Team

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From Tai Chi to pet care, building real community for aging

Apr 3, 2026

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From Tai Chi to pet care, building real community for aging

Senior isolation does not start with an empty fridge, it starts with a closed door that no one feels responsible for opening.

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OLSC Team

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Aging in place technology is Ontario’s overdue house call

Apr 2, 2026

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Aging in place technology is Ontario’s overdue house call

A 78-year-old in Hamilton spends eight hours on a stretcher in a hallway, waiting for a bed that never seems to open up. That same senior could be at home, vitals tracked in real time, nurse on video, daughter getting text alerts. The choice is not futuristic. It is political. It is not optional, it is essential.

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OLSC Team

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When treatment doors close, seniors feel the draft

Mar 31, 2026

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When treatment doors close, seniors feel the draft

Picture an Ontario grandmother watching paramedics arrive on her street again, knowing the person on the stretcher could be a neighbour, a friend, or her own grandchild, and feeling that the system has quietly decided some lives are expendable.

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