Margaret Wente
| Margaret Wente | |
|---|---|
| Born |
15 February 1950 Evanston, Illinois |
| Citizenship | American and Canadian |
| Education | BA (University of Michigan) MA, English (University of Toronto) |
| Occupation | columnist |
| Spouse(s) | Ian McLeod |
Margaret Wente (born 15 February 1950) is a conservative American-born Canadian columnist for Canada's largest national daily newspaper, The Globe and Mail, and a director of the Energy Probe Research Foundation. She received the National Newspaper Award for column-writing in 2000 and 2001. In 2012, Wente was found to have plagiarized on a number of occasions. She was suspended from writing her column, but later reinstated. However, in 2016, she was found to have failed to meet her newspaper's attribution standards in two more columns.
Wente was born in Evanston, Illinois and moved to Don Mills, Ontario in 1964 when her mother married a Canadian. She has since become a naturalized Canadian citizen. She holds a BA in English from the University of Michigan and an MA in English from the University of Toronto. In 2004 Margaret Wente published Accidental Canadian, her autobiographical account of becoming a columnist at The Globe & Mail.
Though Wente did her undergraduate college studies in Ann Arbor, Michigan, every year from May through August she returned to Toronto to serve tables at The Coffee Mill, a Hungarian restaurant:
After graduating from University of Michigan, noticing that the USA was in a "dark phase, torn apart by the politics of Vietnam" (p 7), she chose to live and work in Canada.
Wente was "hired right out of university to be a book publicist" (p 20). Her first assignment was a book on the Summit Series, a confrontation in 1972 of national ice hockey teams from Canada and Russia. She did her job and spent time with the coach, but in her own memoir shows her opinion:
She claims "Hockey does not promote civic engagement. It destroys it" (p 24).
She joined The Globe and Mail in 1986. She has been editor of the paper's business section, the ROB [Report on Business], and managing editor of the paper. Her columns have appeared in the Globe and Mail since 1992, and she has been a full-time columnist for the paper since 1999. She is a frequent commentator on television and radio, and has won several journalism awards.
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