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Reports by Eric Taschner
- East Nipissing Vipers ready to strike at International Silver Stick Championship
- North Bay and District Chamber of Commerce celebrates 130th anniversary
- Nipissing District needs 6,000 more affordable housing units, report finds
- Longer wait time expected at a West Nipissing hospital
- Manufacturing company donates $50K to support five Ont. food banks
- Cold winter forecast sparks optimism for ski and snowboarding season
- North Bay Indigenous man creates videos to foster understanding of First Nation realities
- Northern Ont. survey aims to learn more about student substance use, well-being
- Norad crew waiting for Santa to fly over Canada as annual holiday track underway
- Clear need for addictions treatment beds, officials in North Bay say
- $30M from the province to help fire departments with cancer-preventing upgrades
- Santa Fund North Bay short of its goal, organizers hope for last dash of donations
- North Bay police eyeing a 12.79% budget hike
- Compliance checks in North Bay, Ont., find half of people on bail violated release conditions
- Province provides millions to upgrade and build three northern Ont. fish hatcheries
Eric Taschner
ContactEric Taschner is a videojournalist 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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