<p>Piano, since you live so close and it would solve so many issues, please take a deep look at UBC. I do know someone who did graduate work in composition there who has secured a decent amount of scoring work and who earns his living in the profession.</p>
<p>I have lived and worked in both Toronto and Montreal in the distant past, and for a time was involved in a minor way in film production. If I was asked today to pick a major Canadian city to work in, I’d pick Vancouver 
If I were to pick a grad school in Canada, I’d pick UBC. A resident gets such an awesome break on tuition pricing it’s the absolutely least expensive way to study music on the planet, IMHO. You really are blessed to be a resident ;)</p>
<p>Career wise, I suspect you’ll find Vancouver does have decent ties to the LA film production scene comparatively. In terms of composition, if you have any inclination toward electronic production at all, there are certainly more game sound/music environment opportunities for work on the west coast, from Vancouver right down to SanFrancisco/Bay area. Pick up some c++ along the way and you’ll be golden ;)</p>
<p>Violin dad - thanks for the reciprocity info! That explains something that mystified me about my son’s gt high school in Michigan – the gc there regularly promoted Manitoba to some of the gifted students. Of couse in our case she never mentioned the reciprocity because he was already a Canadian national with a father living outside Winnipeg ;)</p>