Margaret Wente
Margaret Wente | |
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| Born | 15 February 1950 Evanston, Illinois, U.S. |
| Citizenship | American and Canadian |
| Education | BA (University of Michigan) MA, English (University of Toronto) |
| Occupation | Columnist |
| Spouse | Ian McLeod |
Margaret Wente (born 15 February 1950) is a Canadian journalist and was a long-time columnist for The Globe and Mail until August 2019. 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.