An investigative journalist and foreign correspondent for the network, he was the host of the documentary series Dispatches from 2001 to 2012.
Beginning his career with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1976,[1] he worked as a local reporter in various Canadian cities before becoming an international war correspondent in the 1980s, including reports from El Salvador, Chechnya, Gaza, Northern Ireland, the Persian Gulf, Mali, Panama, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Bosnia.
[1][2] In 1993, he won an award from the Canadian Association of Journalists for his five-part series on the rise of the radical right.
[7] The program was cancelled in 2012,[8] although MacInnes-Rae remained with the network in other roles, including continued international affairs reporting and stints as a guest host on The Current and As It Happens.
[1] His future plans include writing a book about a distant ancestor.