Railpath Run 2012 was a success. We had over 150 people register in the event this and are estimating over $5000 was raised for The Stop Community Food Centre.

Thanks to Himy Syed, we have a second set of photos posted that he took, and an amazing VIDEO!

Watch this great 2012 Scotiabank Rat Race for United Way video made by one of our supporters @HiMYSYeD

A friend of #CodeRedTO, @HiMYSYeD, kindle recorded much of our transit information session on May 3rd at the Agincourt Library near Sheppard and Kennedy. Not everything was captured so be sure to join us at a future event!

Huge credit to HiMY SYeD for capturing video of the mayor’s entrance. You can view more footage of the event on his website.

Bike City [ 1:35 - 1:55 ] :
” In Toronto we’ve actually, now about to lose cycling infrastructure. Despite the spin that comes from our municipal level of government, we are actually going to be losing bike lanes and increasing the expenditure in this area. ” — HiMY SYeD

From LeftStreamed
Toronto — 10 September 2011.

View on YouTube website

The idea is simple: Torontonians meet in the park and lay out a People’s Declaration – a clear set of demands to deliver to City Hall. Then we all show up at City Hall on September 26 and 27 to make sure that are these demands are met when council votes on the future of our city.
People across Toronto are mobilizing to save our city from Ford’s cuts. We’ve been part of marathon deputations, thousands of us have …

From Ford For Toronto by Matt Elliott (@GraphicMatt)
Beginning at 9:30 a.m. and extending through to the next morning, the City of Toronto’s Executive Committee — led by Mayor Rob Ford — heard more than one hundred and fifty deputations from a diverse group of citizens. In a sincere bid to ensure that the passion, insight and creativity displayed over the course of that epic meeting is not forgotten, Ford For Toronto will be posting a deputation video every weekday for the month of August.

Deputant: HiMY SYeD (website, twitter)
Occupation: Independent Photojournalist; …

5:51 AM: More hilarity, courtesy of defeated mayoral candidate HiMY SYeD. Begins: “We need to acknowledge the city staff and clerks, they are the unsung heroes of this.” (This is true.) Then continues: “I’m a member of Ford Nation. Nobody was gonna do it, so I stepped up.” …

By Howard, Ooars.com

Featuring interviews/performances from Gentleman Reg, Steamboat, Little Girls and Green Go. Shot by Jason Gilmore and Liem Vu for EYE WEEKLY.COM
Video Rating: 5 / 5
 

Viewtopia.TYO.ca HiMY SYeD — Record Store Day, Sonic Boom The Annex Toronto Canada Saturday April 16 2011
Video Rating: 5 / 5

By Caitlin Orr — Rye Here, Rye Now
Normally, someone walking through St. James Town encounters a bouquet of scents from diverse residents’ cooking. Two months ago, the acrid smell of smoke overwhelmed all else within blocks of the neighbourhood, in every direction. A six-alarm blaze spread to at least two apartments in 200 Wellesley on September 24, a high-rise managed by Toronto Community Housing.
Authorities have still not determined the cause of the fire, but it was very difficult to put out because of a lot of “combustible debris” in the …

First Broadcast on Radio-Canada’s Infoman with Jean-René Dufort
October 21, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Interview with Jean-René Dufort of the CBC Radio-Canada weekly show Infoman.

Report by Michael Pihach, InTorontoMagTv
Mayoral debate at The 519
Two of Toronto’s top three mayoral candidates took questions from the public at the 519 Church St. Community Centre on October 18.
Issues discussed included funding for HIV/AIDS prevention, support for local business, safe injection sites and bed bugs.
IN Toronto was there.
Candidate Rob Ford was not.

By Andrea Houston, Xtra
Rob Ford may not have been at the mayoral debate at The 519 Church Street Community Centre Monday night, but that didn’t stop the two other candidates or audience members from calling him a coward for not showing up.
Even before the debate got rolling, moderator Mathieu Chantelois called Ford’s absence “disappointing.”
“He’s scared!” someone yelled from the middle of the audience, a standing-room-only crowd numbering around 300, which was largely divided between those wearing green Joe Pantalone shirts or purple George Smitherman …

By Darcy Higgins, Sustainability is Step One
Please see this note from Hollie Pollard who I’m helping to organize a fundraiser Thursday evening for the displaced from the 200 Wellesley Fire. Thank you.
From: http://commoncentsmom.com/2010/09/29/an-invite-wellesley-fire-fundraiser/
Himy Syed (yes that one, the one who is one of the darkhorse canidates for mayor of Toronto), I and a few other great volunteers are organizing a fundraiser for the residents of 200 Wellesley. We invite you to come and hear the stories of residents of 200 Wellesley this Thursday Septemeber 30th at 519 Church Street at …

Produced by calixtube
Do you vote for millionaires?
Give your head a shake!

By Kelly Grant, The Globe and Mail
Well, this is guaranteed to be a time-sucker inside at least five campaign offices in Toronto.
OneStop Media, the company behind the TV screens in TTC stations, has unveiled a new game called Mayoral Munch. It’s Pac-Man with a political twist.
Players select one major mayoral candidate to be Pac-Man, which automatically turns the other four into baddies.
The candidate picked most often sits atop a constantly updated poll that will be displayed on OneStop’s screens across Toronto.

HiMY SYeD – Fast forward to the 3:17 mark
As of …

Video Produced by Kyle Perry.

From Toronto Media Co-op

Civil Liberties Now! downtown march on July 10th 2010 speaking with Himy Syed, candidate for Mayor of Toronto 2010, about his letters G20 INQUIRY… Full Interview with the Peoples Mayor as heard on Word of Mouth Wednesday 7-8pm on CKLN 88.1 FM radio mp3 here.
The Peoples’ Mayor Himy Syed and October25.ca
Full Interview with the Peoples Mayor as heard on Word of Mouth Wednesday 7-8 pm on CKLN 88.1 FM radio, Wednesday July 14th 2010.
http://www.radio4all.net/files/director@silsa.ca/3202-2-HimySyed-G20CivilLiberties.mp3

Don’t be fooled into believing there are only six choices for mayor of Toronto, There are more than 6 candidates for Mayor.
Himy Syed – Fast forward to the 6:53 mark

By George Sawision on 5 Mar 2010
Recorded on March 5, 2010 using a Flip Video camcorder.

By Mark Kuznicki, ChangecampTO
A huge thank you to our sponsors (Toronto Public Library, Peapod Studios, Samara Canada, Ascentum, Microsoft and OSSTF District 12), our volunteers and our participants for an incredible start to our project to create a civic engagement toolkit and a self-organizing movement of people who create spaces for civic discourse, community dialogue and citizen action.
The event was called ChangeCampTO: Designing a Civic Engagement Toolkit and it took place Tuesday, February 16th at the Bram and Bluma Appel Salon at the Toronto Reference Library.

The event was envisioned as an opportunity to engage a diverse …

By Kelly Anderson, blogTO
Rocco Rossi was the first in line to file his papers to run for mayor of Toronto. In his subsequent press conference, he billed himself as the “big, bald” mayoral candidate who wanted to cut the mayor’s salary and sell off Toronto Hydro. Despite the splashy debut, many Torontonians don’t know much about the east end-raised Rossi, who once kayaked 490 km from Toronto to Ottawa to raise money for the Heart and Stroke Foundation, of which he was formerly the …

From IMDB, A Moment of Noise
The Boxing Day shooting of 15 year old Jane Creba raised many questions about gun control and safety in the city of Toronto.
A Moment of Noise investigates these issues, as well as speaks to a group of mothers who banded together following the murder of their children.
While the events were devastating and tragic, the film inspires hope and asks that citizens take a look around them, and fight to make a difference.

Featuring

Kassandra Cutting

Marilyn Ortega

Audette Sheppard

Himy Syed

Toronto Mayor David Miller

Directed by
Breann Thordarson
Writing …

By Ghazaleh Etezal, Big on Bloor Festival
share your media on this year’s Flickr pool Facebook group or #bigonbloor09 Twitter. Thank you Himy Syed for the BiG letters stopping to capture the festival!

A 2.5 km section of Bloor Street West, from Christie to Lansdowne, became a car-free space for a day of fun, games and art.

Grab the local Bloor News paper to get your full guide to the festival.
Saturday June 20, 2009 1:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Tariq Ali answering my question on mobilizing for Civil Rights in the Coming Obama Era.

By Ted Sherk
Here are my notes from the walk, along with a few pictures and videos. They’re a bit fragmented, but coherent enough to be interesting I hope.
Retracing Stop Spadina

HiMY, Andrew, Antonio, Christina, Tristan, Adrian
Genesis of Spadina Expressway. 50-60-70 yrs, private transpo companies provided public transit in Toronto. There was very little quality control. The streetcars would run out to the suburbs and end on “squatter’s land”, not actually squatters land, just inexpensive real estate. So workers would tend to buy land at the …

Dressed in Prsoners costumes, these two musicians captivated many transit passengers with their Banjo and Guitar Bluegrass music at the TTC ‘s busiest subway station interchange, Bloor-Yonge Station.

Blue  P E A C E  letters at 3:57 mark by HiMY SYeD
Peace NOW!
Anti-War Actions in Toronto and Ottawa, Canada
September 2002 – April 2003
The 25-minute video features a chronological series of over ten clips from peace demonstrations including Toronto’s contribution to the massive February 15th event, part of the largest coordinated international mobilization in history, and One Big No, the largest political arts event in Toronto in two decades.
The video includes exclusive footage of such prominent individuals as Canadian musician Sarah Harmer, MuchMusic …

This is a trailer for the test screening of ‘Threadbare’, a Film by Arshad Khan.
The test screening will be on August 14, 2007 at the Royal Cinema in downtown Toronto’s Little Italy neighbourhood.
Screenings at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.

Threadbare
running time: 43 minutes
director: Arshad Khan
editor: Oliver Millar
still images: HiMY SYeD
In the Western World, since 9/11, many innocent immigrants are caught in the web between “Homeland Security” and “Home-Grown Terror”. Between 2004 and 2006 more than 814,000 people have been detained and set-up for deportation by the US Government. Thousands of South …