^ This!
Or if you are into AI, university of Montreal is also a hot bed right now with Mr Bengio.
Canadians will gladly take you, in fact I know an Iranian who just finished his math phd...
Courage! :)
And U of Toronto has one of the top Neural Networks groups anywhere. UBC is also a great university in a nice city.
Re:First they came for the Iranians
by it_learnses on Thursday January 26, 2017 @11:18AM
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yeah Waterloo has a great program. I've known a few Iranian students who were disappointed by University of Victoria and then went to Waterloo.
Waterloo itself isn't a particularly large city, but with two universities it has a significant student population, and it's not far from Toronto for anytime you're interested in more of a big city cultural experience.
Of course there are a number of excellent universities here in Canada; if Waterloo isn't to your liking, maybe check out UBC here on the west coast.
I really hope, as Scott suggests in the post, that a silver lining to this situation is that we have an opportunity to welcome more people like you into Canada.
Edit: I could even put you in touch with my old supervising professor (who's also from Iran) if you like; he's in the Engineering faculty as opposed to CS, but I'm sure he would know who to refer you to.