Margaret Wente received the National Newspaper Award for column-writing in 2000 and 2001.
19 Facts About Margaret Wente
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In 2012, Wente was found to have plagiarized on a number of occasions.
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Margaret Wente was suspended from writing her column, but later reinstated.
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Margaret Wente was born in Evanston, Illinois and moved to Toronto, Ontario in 1964 when her mother married a Canadian.
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Margaret Wente holds a BA in English from the University of Michigan and an MA in English from the University of Toronto.
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In 2004 Margaret Wente published Accidental Canadian, her autobiographical account of becoming a columnist at The Globe and Mail.
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Margaret Wente was "hired right out of university to be a book publicist".
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Margaret Wente's first assignment was a book on the Summit Series, a confrontation in 1972 of national ice hockey teams from Canada and Russia.
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Margaret Wente did her job and spent time with the coach, but in her own memoir shows her opinion:.
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Margaret Wente is a frequent commentator on television and radio, and has won several journalism awards.
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In June 2019, Margaret Wente accepted a buyout from The Globe and Mail.
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In September 2012, Margaret Wente was found to have committed plagiarism by Carol Wainio, a blogger and artist who accused Margaret Wente of lifting quotes and rewording passages from published sources without credit.
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However, Margaret Wente continued to write for the Globe and Mail.
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Margaret Wente herself wrote a column to defend herself against accusations of being a "serial plagiarist" but acknowledged she was "extremely careless".
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Margaret Wente took a break from writing her column for a week.
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Margaret Wente was suspended from CBC Radio where she appeared as a biweekly media panelist on the program Q due to her not meeting the CBC's journalistic standards as a result of the 2009 incident.
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Margaret Wente's column was referred to as "irresponsible nonsense" by fellow journalists Toula Drimonis and Ethan Cox.
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Margaret Wente's appointment caused an uproar among faculty and students, both because of past allegations against her of plagiarism, and due to her writings on issues of race and gender.
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Margaret Wente was formerly a director of the Energy Probe Research Foundation.