After a decades-long struggle, Toronto’s Somali residents could soon officially get a place in the city to call their own.
Less than one per cent of the population traces its origins to the East African country, but the community has made outsized contributions to everything from local language — Raptors fans labelled their 2019 playoff opponents the Milwaukee “Bucktees,” after a Somali insult — to music — Mogadishu-born Toronto rapper K’naan won a Grammy this year — to politics — Minister of International Development and York South-Weston MP Ahmed Hussen arrived from Somalia as a refugee.
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