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Reports by Eric Taschner
- Private Northern Ont. college accused of taking tuition, but not offering courses
- North Bay police often forced to spend hours in hospitals for mental-health patient handovers
- North Bay’s drug strategy committee to disband at the end of April
- CMHA North Bay and District relocation plan aims to make access easier for clients
- Southern Ont. man charged with human trafficking in the north
- North Bay's The Gathering Places faces uncertain future, scales back outreach services
- Glass North Bay transit shelters shattered by vandals
- Community Living program benefits both mentors and students
- 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
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