University of Ottawa professor Carol Wainio, whose research led to the 2012 Wente controversy and disciplinary action, raised new concerns in a Saturday post on her blog. Wainio said Wente's latest column contained unattributed text from two different sources.



BuzzFeed Canada reported on Sunday that Globe editor David Walmsley said the paper was "looking into" the allegations. On Monday, the paper's public editor, Sylvia Stead, published a column that acknowledged Wente did use passages without attribution. Stead wrote that as a result the paper will publish two corrections to the offending Wente columns.

Walmsley was quoted as saying, “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.”

Stead wrote that "Ms. Wente said she deeply regrets these mistakes."

Stead's column did not mention Wente's previous plagiarism, detail any disciplinary action being taken, or say if the paper intends to review Wente's other columns.

In her blog post, Wainio wrote that Wente’s April 23 column contains one sentence reproduced verbatim without attribution from an article by Jesse Ausubel in the spring 2015 issue of The Breakthrough Journal. While the article is mentioned and linked in Wente’s column, Ausubel is not credited for the sentence or for what Wainio calls two other incidents of “paraphrase without direct attribution.”

Wainio also said Wente borrowed from an article by UC Berkeley researcher Maywa Montenegro in Ensia magazine without citing or linking to her work.