Hal Niedzviecki is the co-founder of Broken Pencil magazine, the guide to independent culture in Canada. He is also co-organizer of Canzine, a festival of alternative culture held annually in Toronto (and now Vancouver and Halifax), and a correspondent for CBC's Brave New Waves. Hal also frequenty writes for the Globe and Mail and is the author of several books including We want some too: Underground Desire and the Reinvention of Mass Culture (Penguin Books, 2000), Hello, I'm Special: The New Conformity (Penguin Books, 2004) and The Program (Random House, 2005).
