Unpublished Newswire

Giuseppe Bianchin, as best as I can tell, is, in fact, an actual person. This isn’t a trivial matter: Bianchin is the unlikely author of what may be the most peculiar forensic typographical investigation in Canadian history. In September 2025, Chris Alexander—formerly Stephen Harper’s immigration minister—told The Walrus that he thought “Giuseppe Bianchin” was a fiction, and that his investigation was equally fraudulent. The magazine had contacted Alexander while fact-checking my article concerning his accusation that veteran defence reporter David Pugliese was a Russian intelligence...