Yes,

and I think it would also be fun and interesting to invite down people  
from ACM at McGill or UQAM, etc.

http://acm.cs.mcgill.ca/
or this looks interesting:

http://montreal.siggraph.org/about-us

Maybe just send an open invitation for them to come present their  
projects and talk about their department.  We could offer to hot them,  
etc.

Galen