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Reports by Eric Taschner
- North Bay police advise public to avoid section of downtown core
- Book sales to go to Near North Palliative Care Network
- Community Christmas Day Dinner back on again in North Bay
- 'The Bay Bundle' shopping initiative returns to support North Bay businesses
- 'This is home': East Ferris community celebrates centennial milestone
- Staff at LTC home in North Bay worried about staffing levels: Ontario Nurses’ Association
- $15 million to be used for Northern Ontario infrastructure projects
- Thousands line the streets to welcome Santa Claus to North Bay
- North Bay café continues to donate proceeds to help people with intellectual disabilities
- Festive RIDE campaign in North Bay underway with zero tolerance
- North Bay couple donates $5K to Outloud North Bay
- Canadore College creates first of its kind entrepreneur program
- Sundridge Christmas tree farm sees strong demand as tree shortage grows
- North Bay’s Remembrance Day ceremony draws hundreds to cenotaph
- New book tells the story of North Bay soldier who escaped POW camp in Nazi Germany
Eric Taschner
ContactEric Taschner is a Video Journalist with CTV News Northern Ontario based in North Bay.
Originally hailing from Woodstock, Ontario, he is excited to call North Bay his home.
He joined CTV News Northern Ontario in July 2018.
Eric is a two-time RTDNF scholarship winner in 2017 for a three-part series he did on how animals impact our daily lives. He also won both the Dana Lewis Frontline Award for crime reporting and the Digital Journalist Award in 2016.
He has been on the scene of massive fires, floods, wildfires, car crashes, and murder scenes. Additionally, he covers city council meetings, along with both provincial and federal politics.
Eric remembers covering the return to North Bay for one of the last surviving Dionne Quintuplets in 2018. That story aired nationally on CTV News. He also worked on a story about a school shooting threat and exclusively reported on a large wildfire in B.C.
Before joining CTV News Northern Ontario, he previously worked at CJDC-TV in Dawson Creek, B.C. as a Reporter and Anchor. He also spent part of his career employed at 104.7 Heart FM as a Reporter/Newscaster.
He is a graduate of the Broadcast Journalism/Television News program at Fanshawe College, during which he completed an internship at CTV News in London.
Eric is fluent in English.
He enjoys watching soccer and cheering on his favourite team, FC Barcelona.
Dana Lewis Frontline Award, 2016
Digital Journalist Award, 2016
CTV News Northern Ontario Team
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