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Reports by Eric Taschner
- Tent city set up at North Bay city hall to raise awareness of homeless issue
- Province provides $2.5M for North Bay manufacturing businesses
- 'Everybody is behind this': Callander council to dedicate street to local veterans and Legion members
- YMCA of Northeastern Ontario lost $3 million, needs community support to stay open
- North Bay Regional Health Centre treating women who are victims of trauma
- Hockey world embraces young North Bay hockey player as he battles stroke and blood clots
- Offensive letter mass-mailed anonymously in Bonfield compares drag strip noise to George Floyd’s death
- OPP release new video of 10-year-old case in hopes of solving it
- North Bay still has 'capacity' to build new arena without provincial funding, mayor says
- North Bay Police arrest youth allegedly involved in murder investigation, second suspect could be in northern Ontario
- Nipissing MPP Vic Fedeli 'discourages' families from trick-or-treating this Halloween
- Callander Museum hosts 'Photographic Evidence' art show
- Province injects $5.5M into North Bay film and TV production
- Natural gas pipeline project in North Bay underway, province chips in funding
- North Bay road repairs well underway
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
