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also resigned their positions in protest of Wente's appointment. One day after the appointment was made, the college announced that it was reviewing the appointment and Wente's "writings and conduct to assess whether they are consistent with the college’s values". On 22 June 2020, Wente wrote the
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professor Alissa Trotz resigned from her senior fellowship as well as her positions on the college's Governing Board and Governance and Nominating Committee in protest of what she called the college's "non-transparent mechanisms of selection," referring to Wente as "someone who has demonstrated
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subsequently took unspecified punitive actions against Wente for a column written in 2009. Editor John Stackhouse acknowledged that "the journalism in this instance did not meet the standards of The Globe and Mail", noting that the work in question was "unacceptable". However, Wente continued to
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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.
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college's governing council to inform them of her resignation from the position, stating "I do not wish to be a member of the Quadrangle Society. The accusations against me are false and outrageous. My record speaks for itself". In July, historian
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consistent and outright hostility to questions of equity, women and gender studies and anti-racism, and moreover someone who has demonstrated such a glaring lack of professional integrity." Senior
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stated: "This work fell short of our standards, something that we apologize for. It shouldn't have happened and the Opinion team will be working with Peggy to ensure this cannot happen again."
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After graduating from University of Michigan, she felt that the U.S. was in a "dark phase, torn apart by the politics of Vietnam"; she chose to live and work in Canada.
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s public editor addressed the allegations, conceding that "there appears to be some truth to the accusations but not on every charge".
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in 1964 when her mother married a Canadian. She has since become a naturalized Canadian citizen. She holds a BA in English from the
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teams from Canada and Russia. She did her job and spent time with the coach, but in her own memoir shows her opinion:
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Wente was "hired right out of university to be a book publicist" (p 20). Her first assignment was a book on the
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column, on Saturday, 1 March 2014, Wente criticized Canadian universities for their response to the
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resigned her senior fellowship in protest of the college's decision to review Wente's appointment.
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Wente was appointed as a 2020–2021 senior fellow and member of the Quadrangle Society at
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is a sport where they send their big star out to play after he's had his seventh
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She claims "Hockey does not promote civic engagement. It destroys it" (p 24).
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confirmed two additional incidents of plagiarism by Wente. Editor-in-chief
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University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni
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Wente, Margaret (31 August 2019), "The #MeToo moral panic gathers steam",
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in 1986. For a time, she was editor of the paper's business section, the
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Controversial columnist Margaret Wente takes buyout from Globe and Mail
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An Accidental Canadian: Reflections on My Home and (Not) Native Land
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In September 2012, Wente was found to have committed plagiarism by
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where she appeared as a biweekly media panelist on the program
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Though Wente did her undergraduate college studies in
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David Walmsley
Saint Mary's rape chant controversy
Massey College

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