''Dispatches'' was a Canadian radio program, which aired on

CBC Radio One CBC Radio One is the English-language news and information radio network of the publicly owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It is commercial-free and offers local and national programming. It is available on AM and FM to 98 percent of Ca ...

from 2001 to 2012. The program, which was hosted by

Rick MacInnes-Rae Rick MacInnes-Rae is a Canadian radio journalist, known as a longtime reporter and host on CBC Radio. An investigative journalist and foreign correspondent for the network, he was the host of the documentary series '' Dispatches'' from 2001 to 2 ...

, aired documentary reports on international news and feature topics."Rick MacInnes-Rae says goodbye"

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, July 18, 2014. Its opening music was an excerpt from

Mark Knopfler Mark Freuder Knopfler (born 12 August 1949) is a British singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. Born in Scotland and raised in England, he was the lead guitarist, singer and songwriter of the rock band Dire Straits. He pursued a s ...

's song " What It Is." Originally a half-hour program, the program expanded to a one-hour format in April 2007, incorporating some features of CBC Radio's cancelled world music series ''

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''. On April 10, 2012, the CBC announced it would cancel the program due to budget cuts as a result of the

2012 Canadian federal budget The Canadian federal budget for fiscal year 2012–13 was presented to the House of Commons of Canada by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty on 29 March 2012. Among the most notable elements of the federal budget were changes to Old Age Security and a ...

. The last program aired on June 21, 2012 and was repeated June 24.

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