August 7, 2024

Quantum Computing & Quantum Technology Initiatives in Canada

Canada has established itself as a major hub of quantum technology research, and its recent initiatives aim to translate that strength into societal and economic benefits. The country’s National Quantum Strategy, with its coordinated missions in computing, communications, and sensing, provides a roadmap for the next stage of quantum innovation in Canada . In the immediate future, we can expect to see a ramp-up of activity on several fronts. Quantum computing hardware developed by Canadian companies will continue to advance: D-Wave is slated to deliver new generations of annealers and is working toward a gate-model quantum processor, while Xanadu is on track to refine its photonic qubit technology with the long-term goal of a fault-tolerant quantum computer. These efforts, supported ...

News - United States - Quantum Computing, Quantum Tech, Post-Quantum, Quantum Security

Canada PQC Roadmap

Government of Canada Launches Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Migration Roadmap

On June 23, 2025 The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre) has issued a new roadmap for migrating the Government of Canada’s IT systems to post-quantum cryptography (PQC). Effective June 23, 2025, this guidance, "Roadmap for the migration to post-quantum cryptography for the Government of Canada (ITSM.40.001)" lays out clear ...
D-wave quantum advantage

D-Wave Claims Quantum Supremacy with Quantum Annealing

D-Wave Quantum Inc. has announced a breakthrough, claiming to achieve quantum computational advantage – even “quantum supremacy” – using its quantum annealing technology on a practical problem. In a peer-reviewed study published in Science on March 12, 2025, D-Wave’s researchers report that their 5,000+ qubit Advantage2 prototype quantum annealer outperformed ...
Nord Quantique

Breakthrough in Quantum Error Correction by Nord Quantique

Sherbrooke, Canada (February 8, 2024) – Nord Quantique, a Canadian quantum computing startup, has announced a breakthrough in quantum error correction using the Gottesman–Kitaev–Preskill (GKP) bosonic code. The company demonstrated, for the first time, an increase of 14% in the coherence time of a single superconducting qubit by correcting its ...

Articles - United States

Quantum Technology, Quantum Computing, Quantum Security

April 28, 2022

National Initiatives in Quantum Technologies (as of April 2022)

As quantum technologies garner global attention, its economic and national security implications are positioning these set of technologies alongside AI and 5G as pivotal emerging technologies for the future. Governments worldwide are recognizing the strategic importance of quantum technologies, which broadly includes quantum computing, quantum communication and quantum sensing ...

Other Cybersecurity, AI, Emerging Tech

Canada 5G CA5G
November 22, 2019

Collaboration: The Unexpected Key to Success in Canada’s 5G

In 1967, Lynn Margulis, a young biologist, published a paper that challenged more than a hundred years of evolutionary theory. It proposed that millions of years ago, the eukaryotes emerged not from competition, as neo-Darwinism asserts, but from collaboration. Margulis’ research showed how single-celled lifeforms working together created an entirely new organism that became the foundation of all advanced life ...
Canada Innovation Zones AI 5G
October 5, 2019

5G Innovation Zones in Canada for Launching AI and 5G in Tandem

In my previous post I argued that if Canada wants to succeed with its AI-focused innovation agenda, it should also be at the forefront of 5G innovation and development. Canada could get ahead in the global 5G race not by being the first to 5G, but by being the first to roll out 5G in the right way - addressing ...
Canada 5G AI
September 21, 2019

5G and AI – Getting Smart About 5G and AI in Canada

Canada has been investing in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) for longer than most of the industrialized world. Dr. Geoff Hinton of Google helped ignite the field of graphics processing unit (GPU) deep learning at the University of Toronto. Then he became chief scientific advisor to the Vector Institute, which in collaboration with the University, aims to produce the ...
Innovation in Canada
July 2, 2018

Innovation in Canada – What’s Not Working and What Is

Canada’s rankings in innovation has lagged that of other peer nations for decades despite government efforts to address this issue. Considering its success in developing research programs at its universities, its mediocre rankings overall in technology development is disappointing. Those programs alone have not been enough to translate into entrepreneurial innovation. A 2017 C.D. Howe Institute study points out that, ...
Canada Critical Infrastructure
June 19, 2018

Canadian Critical Infrastructure Cyber Protection

Targeted cyberattacks against critical infrastructure (CI) are increasing on a global scale. Critical systems are rapidly being connected to the internet, affording attackers opportunities to target virtual systems that operate and monitor physical structures and physical processes through various modes of cyberattack. When people think of cyberattacks, their minds often go first to the financial sector. After all, that’s the ...

Companies - United States

Quantum Computing Hardware

Xanadu
May 22, 2025

Xanadu

Xanadu is a Toronto-based quantum computing company pioneering photonic (light-based) quantum processors. Founded in 2016 by CEO Christian Weedbrook, the venture has quickly become a leader in continuous-variable photonic quantum ...
Nord Quantique
May 22, 2025

Nord Quantique

Nord Quantique is a Canadian quantum computing startup (founded in 2020 in Sherbrooke, Quebec) focused on building fault-tolerant quantum computers through innovative hardware design. The company’s mission centers on overcoming ...
D-Wave Systems
May 21, 2025

D-Wave Systems

D-Wave Systems is a pioneer in quantum computing known for its unique focus on quantum annealing - a specialized analog approach distinct from the gate-based quantum processors pursued by most ...