‘Tech-ing' Stock Of 2022 – A Synopsis Of Key Developments In Canadian Technology Law

2022 has been bittersweet for many reasons. Corporate workforces trudged back into office buildings after hunkering down at home for more than two years. The COVID-19 pandemic does not feel like a permanent tenant in our lives anymore, despite lurking in the corner. The world is seeing vestiges of the "old normal," even as the "new normal" intermittently rears its head.

Stock markets tumbled as inflation soared. The Ukraine war rubbed salt on recovering economies' wounds. The technology industry, including Big Tech both north and south of the U.S.-Canada border, saw unprecedented massive layoffs. CEOs penned melancholic send-offs on social media to and for affected employees (a particularly lachrymose one posted a crying selfie, leaving netizens wondering the difference between affliction and affectation). In the high-stakes game of acquisitions in Big Tech as well, not everyone saved the drama for the llama.