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Reports by Eric Taschner
- Staff who didn't comply with vaccine policy won't get jobs back: North Bay hospital CEO
- New Liskeard's ‘COVID Busters’ create music video with Ghostbusters theme to promote school safety
- 22 Wing/CFB marks Bell Let’s Talk Day with virtual mental health expo
- Alzheimer Society finding people living with dementia have become more isolated due to pandemic
- Northern Ont. woman living with ALS says PSW shortage is causing her life to 'deteriorate'
- Number of Sturgeon Falls downtown murals continues to grow
- Air Canada reducing number of flights between North Bay and Toronto
- New nursing program coming to Canadore College, aims to address nursing shortage
- North Bay Nordic Ski Club sees membership rise in wake of COVID-19 pandemic
- North Bay Brain Injury Association secures provincial funding
- Home sales set record in North Bay last year
- North Bay woman’s ideas for palliative care during the pandemic to be heard by the WHO
- Staff shortages prompt inmate transfer as COVID-19 outbreak at North Bay Jail worsens
- North Bay parents keep children active with outdoor backyard rinks
- North Bay Humane Society continues to help animals and owners through pandemic
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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