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Reports by Eric Taschner
- North Bay City Council votes to increase access for snowmobiles
- Powassan and area farmstand tour grows in size
- North Bay police officer recognized for helping city's homeless
- North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit calls for vigilance as Ontario begins reopening
- North Bay Armed Forces Day celebrated virtually this year
- One dead, one in hospital following East Ferris domestic dispute
- North Bay Farmers Market crafters told they can't temporarily attend unless they sell curb-side only
- West Nipissing apartment fire destroys building, displaces five people
- North Bay rapper raising money for mental health supports through new song
- 'She loved her job’: Late northern Ontario OPP officer receives prestigious policing award
- Basement fire damages home in North Bay's northeast end
- Planting popularity blossoms during second growing season of the pandemic
- North Bay city council calls on provincial and federal governments to help struggling renters
- Demand at North Bay soup kitchen has soared since the start of the pandemic
- Turcotte’s Chip Stand ready to open again in a new era
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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