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 …

By Josh Hume, NOW Magazine

An incumbent councillor is harder to get rid of than a pool shark hogging a pub’s lone billiard table, dispatching all comers before they have a chance to sink a single shot.
To …

By Katie Daubs, Toronto Star
Ken Wood can’t afford glitzy t-shirts. His campaign office is his basement apartment and his best asset is his colour printer.
“I’m the poor people’s candidate,” Wood told a group of would-be councillors, adding that he lives off a disability allowance.
Mayoral candidate HiMY SYeD, (who spells his name with lower-case vowels in homage to a former teacher) held a gathering for “unincumbent” candidates like Wood at the Dovercourt Baptist Church on Monday. Since nine councillors are retiring or running for mayor this year, …

From The Green Majority,  CIUT 89.5 FM Daryn Caister asks Toronto municipal candidate George Sawision and Mayoral Candidate Himy Syed (Twitter) about the Toronto Community Green Linx project, how street level action can effectively happen in Canadian cities and the challenges active environmental citizens face.

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

By CARRIE BRUNET, InsideToronto
cbrunet@insidetoronto.com
Incumbent Joe Pantalone took his ward by a landslide again this election, returning for a term that will see him serving nearly three decades in municipal politics.
In his last term, Pantalone was one of David Miller’s deputy mayors. He was also the city’s tree advocate and chaired the round table on the environment.
This time around Pantalone was challenged by newcomers George Sawision, Himy Syed and Nick Boragina.
Pantalone took the seat with 8,524 votes, followed by Sawision with 1,710 votes, Boragina with 511 votes and Syed with 403 …

By Peter Kuitenbrouwer, National Post
I popped into my local, Caffe Brasiliano on Dundas Street West near Euclid Avenue, the other day for an espresso and was surprised to find the place, inside and out, festooned with huge posters — like a theatre decked out for a Joseph Stalin rally — showing a smiling, grey-haired gentleman.
“George Sawision,” read the posters. “Ward 19 Trinity-Spadina. It’s time to make a difference together.”
Mr. Sawision, 50, a master electrician who has lived on Crawford Street in the ward his whole life, is a long shot …

From CHIN Radio, October 28 , 8:45 am

HiMY SYeD – Radio Interview — CHIN Radio October 28 , 8:45 am

By CARRIE BRUNET, InsideToronto
cbrunet@insidetoronto.com
Few candidates have chosen to run in Ward 19 held by incumbent and deputy mayor Joe Pantalone.
Pantalone has been the councillor in the area for more than 25 years. For the last term he has been the city’s tree advocate and has worked to establish the Johnny Lombardi Memorial on College Street.
Also running in the ward this election is, U.K.-born, Himy Syed.
In his own words, Syed is an ‘artist, community and anti-war activist, author and civil rights activist, interest-free banker, photojournalist and photoblogger.’
George Sawision, is …

By KAREN MACKENZIE, Spacing Votes

The addictive potential of last week’s Nuit Blanche now leaves me in withdrawal. I polled candidates in wards 18, 19, 20, and 21, in hopes I could live vicariously through their tales of the all-night art party’s witching hour.
Everyone who responded vowed to support the event for another year.
Himy Syed, a candidate running in Ward 19 Trinity-Spadina, had the most enthusiastic response by far (editor’s disclaimer: Syed contributes to Spacing Photos regularly). At the witching hour, Syed was atop the CN Tower with a photoblogger crew. He posted a …