I have a friend who goes to McGill. There's a pretty good fixed scene there, and the drinking age is 18 or 19, but apparently it's pretty unimportant. Speaking of alcohol in Canada, it's supposedly more expensive and you can't get down and dirty liquor. But there's more to college than booze.

On the downside, it is cold as balls and they get a ridiculous amount of snowfall. So much, that a lot of things are done underground. I don't imagine that'll be very bike friendly.

That's all I really know, can't give any first-hand experiences, so take it with a grain of salt.

And biking in the snow sucks way more than biking in the rain. It's way way way more slippery and the snow kills your speed and efficiency so much it's almost depressing. And then if you have incompetent plowers, the bike lanes are filled with the snow from the road. Plus, I don't know what they do in other places but here in Michigan they throw ridiculous amounts of salt all over everything, killing every ferrous metal in the area. Hell, one of our counties actually ran out of salt. Bah I hate Michigan. End rant, sry.