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Reports by Eric Taschner
- North Bay session highlights need for compassion for people living on street
- NoahStrong Foundation supports program that helps caregivers
- Nipissing District Victim Services brings newest K9 recruit on board to start training
- North Bay shutterbug uses wild chipmunks to star in her children’s book
- All wheel park gets closer to becoming a reality in downtown North Bay
- Nipissing University researchers to examine Indigenous sexual assault supports
- Northern Ont. murder victim’s family gets closure after 36 years, plans family burial
- Police in North Bay practise emergency scenarios at the hospital
- Farmers, community rally to save Thornloe Cheese
- Northern hockey player raises money for KidSport in memory of six of her friends
- North Bay transitional housing project welcomes new residents
- Wheelchair tennis star from North Bay named a flag bearer at Parapan Games
- City of North Bay hosts Road Safety Strategy Open House
- Christmas book relaunch will raise money for North Bay homeless
- Crowd gathers in North Bay to urge for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war
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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