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Reports by Eric Taschner
- North Bay’s Jewish community disappointed by PPC candidate’s tweet comparing vaccine rules to Holocaust
- CFUW North Bay launches 80th anniversary celebrations
- Photographs of northern Ontario artifacts on display at North Bay Museum
- Election campaign in Parry Sound – Muskoka riding begins to heat up
- Advance polls open in North Bay to lines and anxious voters
- Post-secondary students in North Bay weigh in on upcoming federal election
- Ed Valenti to fill vacant North Bay city councillor seat
- Effort to preserve underground North Bay military complex gains momentum
- Bridge dedicated to North Bay man on anniversary of his death
- Nipissing-Timiskaming riding candidates begin their platform pitch
- Warren family farm has become a major supplier of lettuce for northern Ontario
- North Bay Transit making changes in anticipation of increased ridership
- Nipissing-Timiskaming candidates disappointed after election signs vandalized
- North Bay city councillor is stepping down
- North Bay business sets up unofficial polling station to generate election talk
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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