Former news columnist Margaret Wente has resigned from a senior fellowship position at Massey College after the school said it would review her appointment. Trotz said she was “dismayed” to discover that Wente, formerly of the Globe and Mail, had been appointed a 2020-21 senior member of Massey College. In her resignation letter, which Wente emailed to the Star, she called the accusations “false and outrageous.”“I do not wish to be a member of the Quadrangle Society. The Globe and Mail also apologized in 2016 after Wente was found to have copied sentences in two more of her columns. Sign Up NowDes Rosiers told the Star that the nominating committee was not aware of the controversies involving Wente, until Trotz’s letter of resignation.

Source: thestar June 22, 2020 22:53 UTC