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Osler Legal Outlook — 81 episodes
Canada’s 2026 privacy priorities: data sovereignty, open banking and AI
AI training on trial: the next legal frontier in copyright law
Reconciling Aboriginal title and private property rights on unceded land
International trade: navigating the rapidly changing landscape
Shareholder activism in Canada: trends and outlook for coming years
From AML to AI: regulatory developments in the financial services landscape
Canada’s crypto realignment: focus on stablecoins and global tax transparency
Beyond tariffs: compliance implications of shifting U.S. trade relations
Presenting our legal outlook
Hot topics in financial services M&A
Data sovereignty: looking to the past as Canada decides how to move forward
Building Canada: advancing national priorities and projects
Canadian and U.S. regulatory developments are reshaping market oversight
Search funds in Canada: navigating cross-border challenges
Increasing AI in litigation: advantages, perils and increasing regulation
How 2025 rewrote the rules of corporate governance for 2026 and beyond
Restructuring the Canadian tobacco industry: a model for the future?
Powering AI: Canada’s evolving electricity grid connection policies
Canadian M&A outlook: cautious optimism in a reshaped market
Evolving consumer protection laws will affect suppliers
Navigating the new Competition Act: early impacts and emerging challenges
Canada’s EV ecosystem recalibration
Asset joint venture monetizations: unlocking capital while keeping control
The rise of the machines: agentic AI
Privacy and data-related law reform to continue in 2025
Presenting our Legal Outlook
Highlights of the new Competition Act and pending changes for foreign investment
Businesses face increasing costs for supply chain compliance
The landscape for Internet gaming in Canada evolves
It’s debatable: unresolved corporate governance issues impacting 2025
What’s new in Québec’s consumer protection law?
Canadian mandatory climate disclosure rules in the forecast
The rise of retail: accessing private markets
Two years of CIRO: enforcement, harmonization and what’s next
Private equity M&A: strong appetite for exchangeable share structures
Consult before exploring: mineral tenure and Indigenous rights
Hurtling towards the future: regulatory development in the financial services sector
Unlocking AI innovation
Venture capital in the balance: steering through market turbulence
Canadian global minimum tax, digital services tax and other international tax reforms
Navigating control transactions: clarifying acceptable conduct boundaries
The burden of protectionism: outlook for Canadian trade
Termination clauses under the microscope and other cautions
Product liability: tipping the scales against industry
The changing environment of federal impact assessment
The impact of stronger drug dosing patents on Canadian drug access
Developing Canada’s critical minerals for energy transition
Will new powers lead to more effective capital markets regulatory enforcement?
Spotlight on greenwashing under the Competition Act
CRA’s power to audit and assess: new developments, old problems
Navigating Canada’s evolving carbon markets
The devil is in the details: legislative changes and access to healthcare
Significant changes to Québec’s commerce and business language requirements
Tackling ‘snow washing’: expanding Canada’s anti-money laundering regime
Crypto evolving: embracing TradFi compliance amid regulatory uncertainty
Overcoming infrastructure challenges critical to Canada’s EV ambition
Impact of transparency register requirements on financial sponsors
Private equity: developments in subscription line lending
Private to public and back again
Transfer pricing proposals infuse Canada’s tax laws with OECD concepts
A new era for the Canadian GAAR
Digital assets and blockchain: the year of maturation
Capital markets enforcement: innovative, and controversial, new directions
A robust protection maintaining solicitor-client privilege
White-collar enforcement will continue to take shape in 2024
Energy transition ushers in compensation claims for shifting land use plans
Corporate governance focuses on the who, what and how
Looking forward on clawbacks
The wave of privacy and data legislation reform will continue in 2024
Online streaming and news laws advance federal government’s digital agenda
Supply chains, ‘friend-shoring’ and cooperation with allies
Ch-ch-changes: navigating the shifting tides of Canadian competition law
Strengthening Canada’s national security review regime
Navigating the future of remote work
What if you face a class action even though no one was harmed?
Managing risks and meeting the future: financial services regulatory trends
Proposed clean electricity regulations: is Canada staying in its lane?
A tempest of change: impact of climate-related litigation and regulation
Canada emerging as powerhouse in the global EV supply chain
AI governance: navigating the path ahead
Presenting our Legal Outlook