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Reports by Eric Taschner
- North Bay Farmers Market co-founder to retire as vendor
- Temiskaming Shores promotes culinary tourism with passport tour
- NDP demands province finance entire Cassellholme redevelopment project
- Vaccine hesitancy, misinformation a problem for North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit
- North Bay Museum has lift off on new exhibit showcasing city's aviation history
- Suspected lightning strike sparks fire in house in Bonfield, Ont.
- Car removed from Trout Lake after it plunged into water Sunday night
- Province injects $7.3M into northeastern Ontario film and TV projects
- Cyclists pedalling across Canada to raise money for First Nation communities stop in North Bay
- North Bay post-secondary schools undecided if vaccinations will be mandatory for students on campus
- Housing project in Mattawa to help dozens of seniors find an affordable place to live
- Opinion split in North Bay on speeding up province’s reopening plan
- Northern Ontario reacts to Canada’s first Indigenous governor general
- Partnership between Canadore College and Toronto Film School aimed at helping students get jobs
- 'I'm just happy to be here': North Bay man celebrates 100th birthday with drive-by party
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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