Monthly Privacy Call - January 21, 2026

Watch the Webinar On-Demand Here.  The presentation slides are available for download here. 

In this special edition of the Monthly Privacy Call, the partners from Osler's national Privacy and Data Management group covered critical developments from 2025 that shaped the privacy law landscape across Canada. 

During the 90-minute webinar, Adam Kardash, Éloïse Gratton, Joanna Fine, John Salloum, Rosario Cartagena, François Joli-Coeur and Adam LaRoche discussed, among other topics: 

• The state of privacy and data legislative reform, federally and across Canadian provinces, including the increasing focus on data sovereignty considerations;
• New guidance from privacy regulatory authorities on topics such as anonymization, biometrics, and youth privacy;
• Practice themes and regulatory expectations regarding security incident response, access requests, and the intersection of privacy and AI;
• Enforcement trends related to Canada's anti-spam legislation; and
• Key privacy litigation developments. 

Continuing Professional Development
•    Ontario: The program contains 1 hour and 30 minutes of Substantive content.
•    British Columbia: This program contains 1 hour and 30 minutes of General content.
•    Québec: Ce programme est admissible à 1 heure et 30 minutes de formation continue.