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These days, one doesn’t have to look very far on the McGill University campus to discover “Le French side de McGill.”

You can find it in classrooms, boardrooms, laboratories and cafés, where French is commonly heard, as well as at campus activities and in a new feeling that the often-criticized “McGill bubble” just may be evaporating, allowing the university to finally reflect the predominantly francophone Quebec society in which it is rooted.

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Nor does there seem to be any real pushback to the increasingly high profile “French side” of one of the country’s most prominent English universities.

So while the tag line on the university’s new Vivre McGill en Français portal invites students to “Découvrez le French side de McGill,” francophone and anglophone students are already coexisting peacefully in the McGill of 2016: that is, an English institution — but one with a distinctly French side.