Montreal is really hot in AI/data science. U Montreal is arguably the top research university in deep learning at the moment, and McGill and Concordia also have

Montreal is really hot in AI/data science. U Montreal is arguably the top research university in deep learning at the moment, and McGill and Concordia also have good CS departments. The IVADO (a cross university data science institute in montreal) recently got a $93M investment for research and promotion of data science in Montreal.