Anishinaabe MC, singer-songwriter Leonard Sumner is making music to work through grief
The ongoing global pandemic has Anishinaabe MC, singer/songwriter Leonard Sumner sitting on his new music…
Dennis Ward
Dennis is Metis from southern Manitoba. After spending a decade working in TV in Alberta and Ontario, Dennis returned to Manitoba to join APTN’s Winnipeg bureau as reporter/correspondent in September 2014. In 2016, he won a Canadian Association of Journalists award for his story A Soldier Scorned for APTN Investigates. In 2017, he became a host/producer for APTN National News and Face to Face. In 2020, Dennis and co host Melissa Ridgen were nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best News Anchor, National.
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Cree Anishinaabe physician talks medicine, and a need to trust the COVID-19 vaccine
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