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Reports by Eric Taschner
- Royal Canadian Air Force celebrates 100 years
- North Bay restaurant rallying community support for fire victims
- Drug strategy committee, North Bay police on high alert as new ‘powerful’ substances found laced in fentanyl
- New Liskeard weekend-long hockey tournament raises awareness of CPR, defibrillators
- Jack Lyons memorial hockey tournament honours late teen with autism
- Residents of Powassan group home relocated to North Bay motel
- As wildfire season nears, northern Ont. township calls for better preparation
- Northern Ont. youth meets his NHL idol Connor Bedard during March Break trip
- One dead, one in custody after River Valley shooting, OPP says
- Northern Ont. mayor says better police communication needed in wake of Highway 11 shooting
- Warm weather means new crop of potholes come out early in the north
- 'We heard several gunshots’: Witnesses near Latchford shocked at violent scene
- North Bay leads the charge for properly recycling household batteries
- North Bay police to be equipped with referral forms to assist veterans in need
- Nipissing District paramedics honour former chief who's battling blood cancer
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