Margaret Wente is one of Canada's leading columnists. As a writer for The Globe and Mail, she provokes heated debate with her views on health care, education, and social issues. She is this year's winner of the National Newspaper Award for column-writing.
Ms. Wente has had a diverse career in Canadian journalism as both a writer and an editor. She has edited two leading business magazines, Canadian Business and ROB Magazine. She has also been editor of the Globe's business section, the ROB, and managing editor of the paper. Her columns have appeared in the Globe since 1992. For the past two years she has been writing full-time for the paper, and she is a frequent commentator on television and radio.
Ms. Wente was born in Chicago and moved to Toronto with her family when she was in her teens. She has won numerous journalism awards. She holds a BA from the University of Michigan, and an MA in English from the University of Toronto. She is married to Ian McLeod, a television producer.
Quebec’s tuition protesters are the Greeks of Canada
Caving in to pressure from the people for entitlements the state could not afford was what got Europe into trouble in the first place
Doctor-bashing’s not the cure for health-care costs
Until we find ways to get everyone in the system to work together, all the sweeping top-down master plans will never work
Educated for unemployment
Liberal arts students have been sold a bill of goods by universities that put their needs above those of the people they teach
Barack Obama’s evolution – and ours
The President’s support of same-sex marriage is a rare convergence of smart politics and the right thing to do
The Occupiers leave the building
Lacking a coherent message and increasingly linked with violence, the movement that championed the ‘99 per cent’ has run its course
Bullying the teacher
The case of the supply teacher, the student and the banana illustrates the extent to which common sense has disappeared from Canada’s classrooms
Is anybody normal any more?
‘We’re being overdosed and overmedicated,’ says Allen Frances, a leading critic of what’s known as diagnostic inflation
Welcome back, Conrad Black!
Whatever you think of his guilt or innocence, the former guest of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons is the kind of fascinating, erudite and defiant public intellectual Canada needs
Quebec’s university students are in for a shock
They’re the baristas of tomorrow and they don’t even know it, because the adults in their lives have sheltered them and encouraged their mass flight from reality
The professional-class bubble is bursting
Six-figure incomes and private ski clubs were all but guaranteed – not any more
