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Reports by Eric Taschner
- Outloud North Bay allowed to stay open despite stay at home order
- North Bay high school students to perform first production since pandemic began
- Province designates Niijaansinaanik Child and Family Services as Indigenous children’s aid society
- Trudeau Government invests money into Nipissing First Nation water treatment plant
- Easter Weekend appointments at vaccination clinic in North Bay booked up
- Patient no-shows a concern for North Bay Regional Health Centre
- Downtown North Bay & Waterfront offers ‘March Break Family Bundle’ packs
- Federal funding to help connect 1,200 northern Ontario homes to high-speed internet
- Blocks of ice pour over Lake Nipissing municipal wharf
- North Bay homeless shelters have been experiencing capacity issues since New Year
- Canadore College students holding trivia fundraiser for local sexual violence support centre
- North Bay high school students to compete at Canadian junior weightlifting championships
- OPP stats find fewer car crashes in northeastern Ontario in 2020, but more deaths
- Fire officials and OPP warn people about melting ice after vehicles fall through Lake Nipissing
- North Bay health unit expects district to remain in the red zone
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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