In the surrounding city of Timmins, the servers at two new Indian restaurants do not ask customers how spicy they want their dishes. A shuttered bar named Gibby s has been reopened as a Sikh temple, or gurdwara, where students from the school, Northern College, gathered on a recent evening.
The country’s public colleges and universities increasingly rely on international students, especially from India, even as tensions between the two nations have flared.