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That's surprising that you'd report that, given where you grew up. I would have thought bilingualism and the presence of francophones would have been no big deal to anglo kids in Russell-Embrun.
You'd think that, but there's a surprising amount of anti-francophone sentiment in the area. When the township passed a bylaw requiring signs to be bilingual the anglo population there practically rioted and voted as a bloc to elect a mayor who opposed it (although he was unsuccessful in repealing it).
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You'd think that, but there's a surprising amount of anti-francophone sentiment in the area. When the township passed a bylaw requiring signs to be bilingual the anglo population there practically rioted and voted as a bloc to elect a mayor who opposed it (although he was unsuccessful in repealing it).
You're right. I had forgotten but even in areas with lots of francophones in Ontario (even a majority in some cases) you can have quite a few anglophones who are *sensitive* about bilingualism, French and francophones getting too uppity. They're generally OK with having lots of francophones around them but they don't want too much French in their face (or shoved down their throats, as per the usual expression).

All of this kind of fades from your mind when you've lived in Quebec for a long time like I have.
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The University of Ottawa tumbles down world university rankings

Don Butler, Ottawa Citizen
Published on: September 21, 2016 | Last Updated: September 21, 2016 4:50 PM EDT


The University of Ottawa is “surprised and disappointed” that it has fallen sharply in a prestigious ranking of world universities.

The Times Higher Education rankings for 2016-17, released Wednesday, put uOttawa in a band between 251 and 300 among 980 universities that were rated around the world.

As recently as 2012, Times Higher Education ranked the university No. 171 in the world, and then-president Allan Rock said that ranking was “a long way from where we want to be.”

That turned out to be a high water mark, however. Last year, uOttawa fell out of the top 200, ranked between No. 225 and 250, and the decline has continued this year.

The university also fell against its Canadian peers. Last year, Times Higher Education rated uOttawa eighth-highest among Canadian universities. This year, it is tied with three other schools for 12th place.

In an email, university spokeswoman Isabelle Mailloux-Pulkinghorn said “we’ve just received these results and are currently analyzing them,” adding: “We understand that Times Higher Education have made changes to how they rate universities.”

Phil Baty, the editor of the world rankings, said uOttawa’s international outlook score – which measures international collaboration and the ratio of international students and staff to domestic – has been steadily improving.

But he said the university has lost ground in in its scores for research income and industry income.

“Against competitive pressures coming from elsewhere in the world – particularly the rise of Asian universities in the past few years – universities that merely stand still in their own right will inevitably drop down the rankings,” Baty said in an email.

Times Higher Education has significantly expanded the number of universities rated in each of the past two years. That partly explains the fact that uOttawa and nine other Canadian universities lost ground in the new rankings.

In total, Canada placed 26 institutions on the list of the world’s top universities, including Carleton University, which maintained its placing in a band between No. 501 and 600 – behind 20 other Canadian universities.

As in past years, the University of Toronto was highest-rated, though it fell to No. 22 from No. 19 last year.

In total, eight Canadian universities were ranked in the top-200 globally, up from seven in 2015. with the University of Calgary breaking into the elite upper tier at No. 195. The other top-200 universities are British Columbia (36), McGill (42), Montréal (103), Alberta (107), McMaster (113) and Waterloo (173).

Baty noted that early this year, the Canadian government announced that universities will receive almost $20 million for state-of-the-art tools and equipment, and up to $2 billion to help modernize their infrastructures.

The government is also relaxing the citizenship process for international students in an effort to attract 450,000 overseas students by 2022. “These are great initiatives for the university sector,” he said.

But overall, Baty described Canada’s performance as mixed, saying the country “will have to watch out for Asia’s continuing ascent.

“Canada’s success cannot be guaranteed in the long-term while more of Asia’s leading universities soar to join the world elite.”

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You're right. I had forgotten but even in areas with lots of francophones in Ontario (even a majority in some cases) you can have quite a few anglophones who are *sensitive* about bilingualism, French and francophones getting too uppity. They're generally OK with having lots of francophones around them but they don't want too much French in their face (or shoved down their throats, as per the usual expression).

All of this kind of fades from your mind when you've lived in Quebec for a long time like I have.
Yeah because Francophones in English predominant areas like west island are happy to be forced to speak English.
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Yeah because Francophones in English predominant areas like west island are happy to be forced to speak English.
I never said anything either way.

So predictable!
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What happened to the thread about buying a house in Sandy Hill?
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What happened to the thread about buying a house in Sandy Hill?
Well, the OP came back with a question about whether not being bilingual was a barrier to working in admin at the UofO...
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Edit: starting a new thread (not because of hr language discussion, but because I think it's a new subject).

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