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The Globe and Mail was formed on the 23rd of November 1936, when The Globe merged with The Mail and Empire. The Globe itself had been founded in 1844 by George Brown, and The Daily Mail and Empire had been created in 1895 through a merger of The Toronto Mail and The Empire.
The Globe and Mail is owned by the Woodbridge Company, the holding company of the Thomson family. The Thomson family re-acquired direct control with an 85 percent stake at the end of 2010, and the Woodbridge Company acquired the remaining 15 percent from BCE in 2015.
Report on Business, commonly known as ROB, is the financial section of The Globe and Mail and is considered the most extensive daily compilation of economic news in Canada. Standard ROB sections run fifteen to twenty pages, and the Report on Business Magazine is released on the last Friday of every month.
The Globe and Mail has generally endorsed right-wing parties in federal elections. It endorsed Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservatives in 1984 and 1988, supported Stephen Harper's Conservative Party in 2006, 2008, and 2011, and did not make an endorsement in the 2019 federal election.
The Globe and Mail had a weekly readership of more than 6 million in 2024, making it Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays. It falls slightly behind the Toronto Star in overall weekly circulation because the Star publishes a Sunday edition and the Globe does not.
On the 25th of September 2012, The Globe and Mail announced it had disciplined senior columnist Margaret Wente after she admitted to plagiarism. The accusations had been repeatedly raised by University of Ottawa professor and blogger Carol Wainio before the paper took action.