There's a Kitchener-Waterloo Crypto Interest Group, with a Wiki and a Mailing List.

• University of Waterloo Computer Science Club presents Security and Privacy lectures
  • Why Should You Care About Security and Privacy (2013-10-08)
  • Tunnels and Censorship (2013-10-15)
  • Disk Encryption (2013-10-24)
  • Practical Tor Usage (2013-10-24)
  • Hands On Seminar on Public Key Cryptography (2013-11-05)

• KWLUG - Encrypting E-mail with GnuPG, Thunderbird and Enigmail (2013-12-02)

• Informal keysigning at the KWLUG Meeting

• KWLUG: TOR: The Onion Router

• Kwartzlab: Cryptography Workshop