Margaret Wente (born 15 February 1950) is an American-born Canadian.
She was a columnist for Canada's largest national daily newspaper, The Globe and Mail until August 2019, and a director of the Energy Probe Research Foundation.
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.