I attended the Bitcoin meetup in Toronto yesterday. It was pretty sweet. ~40 people showed up.
Cool dudes from i4see came down from Montreal to demo prototypes of new payment processing/hardware wallets that use fingerprint recognition.
http://www.linkedin.com/company/i4seeMr. Peter Todd gave a talk on off-chain transactions. He spoke at Bitcoin conference as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d3LA8KpdMQThe Bitcoin Alliance of Canada is shaping up (
http://www.bitcoinalliance.ca/), founder Anothony Di Iorio is also the organizer of the meetups.
Overall, really nice place to have a couple drinks with some Bitcoiners.
http://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Toronto/