Provinces & Territories

Dalhousie University leads AI research in Atlantic Canada with strengths in ocean technology, health AI, and marine data science.

The University of New Brunswick hosts the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity, a national centre for AI-driven security research.

Memorial University conducts AI research applied to ocean science, offshore energy, and remote health delivery across coastal communities.

UPEI's School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences has emerging data science and AI programmes supporting the province's digital economy.

Canada's most populous province. Home to Vector Institute and CIFAR — two of the three Pan-Canadian AI institutes.

Home to Mila — one of the world's leading academic deep-learning research institutes, founded by Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio.

Home to Amii, the third Pan-Canadian AI institute, anchored at the University of Alberta — a global leader in reinforcement learning research.

The University of Saskatchewan leads AI research programmes focused on agriculture, precision farming, and natural resource management.

The University of Manitoba has growing AI and data science research programmes, with strengths in health informatics and Indigenous data sovereignty.

Home to D-Wave Systems — a global leader in quantum computing — and two major research universities driving AI innovation in Vancouver.

Yukon University — Canada's newest university — is building capacity in digital technology and AI to support remote communities and the resource sector.

The NWT is investing in broadband connectivity and digital infrastructure to bring AI-assisted services to 33 remote communities across 1.3 million km².

Nunavut is deploying digital infrastructure to connect its 25 remote communities, with growing interest in AI-assisted health diagnostics and Inuktitut language preservation.