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Reports by Eric Taschner
- City of North Bay kick-starting pilot project with its transit service
- New stay-at-home order signals trouble for winter tourism industry in northern Ontario
- ‘A huge step forward’: Mattawa school buses to be equipped with stop-arm cameras
- Police agencies launch awareness campaign to protect people from 'poisonous' meth
- Carbon monoxide poisoning kills northern Ontario couple winter camping
- Families confirm identities of victims of New Year’s Day sudden deaths
- OutLoud North Bay holding virtual events during province-wide lockdown
- North Bay political leaders reflect on 2020, look ahead to 2021
- Workplace Safety North creates and releases snowmobile safety webinar
- North Bay OPP have charged 9 people for impaired driving since RIDE campaign started
- Laurentian Ski Hill disappointed it has to delay season due to lockdown
- NORAD keeping a watchful eye out for Santa as he approaches North America
- Timiskaming Health Unit concerned parties are causing COVID-19 cases to multiply
- Nordic Ski Club in North Bay opens for its 45th year
- NORAD gearing up to track Santa Claus
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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