GLOBE AND MAIL, THE

daily newspaper published in Toronto, the most prestigious and influential journal in Canada. The paper's origins can be traced to a liberal newspaper, The Globe, founded in 1844 by a Scottish immigrant, George Brown, and to The Mail, later the Mail and Empire, a conservative paper founded by John A. Macdonald in 1872. The two papers competed until 1936, when George McCullagh bought The Globe. Less than a month later, he bought the Mail and Empire and merged the two as the independent newspaper, The Globe and Mail. The Globe and Mail sees its role as independent but not neutral. It is Canada's national newspaper, in effect, and its publication of the texts of speeches, parliamentary debates, and other documents has made it the Canadian newspaper of record. Its large staff of foreign correspondents and its foreign news bureaus have given The Globe and Mail's international coverage great strength. For more than a decade from 1958, its Peking bureau was the source of China news preferred by most U.S. dailies.