Hacker News Reader

Yoshua Bengio studied there, and I think Doina Precup teaches there as well.

They are ranked 31st in the world in QS (rankings are not that useful, but they can be a metric to whether people "consider" it a good school). Extremely well-known research-wise, at least in Canada and north-east.

Maybe the best school in Canada, certainly top 5.

waterloo is better.

For CS, absolutely. The McGill brand spanks Waterloo's for most other domains. Note I said "brand". What you do with your diploma has little to do with the university you graduated from.

agreed.

Yes, it's a pretty good uni in Quebec

I would say it's certainly the most well known university in Canada.