Abigail Bimman

Abigail Bimman is an award-winning journalist and a correspondent for CTV National News based in Ottawa. She joined CTV’s Ottawa bureau the week before the start of the 2025 federal election campaign, and spent time on the road covering three political parties. Abigail reported live from Conservative headquarters on election night as the party lost its bid for government and its leader lost his seat. Abigail has been reporting on Parliament Hill since 2017, formerly for Global National. Just three months after she started, she had a front-row seat covering the disastrous state visit to India aboard former prime minister Justin Trudeau's plane. Abigail has earned a reputation for holding public officials to account and pushing for answers. She prides herself on telling stories that put people first, cutting through bureaucratic language and political jargon to get at the heart of what matters to Canadians, and telling those stories in interesting and compelling ways. During her time in Ottawa, Abigail has broken exclusive stories on many topics, including health care and the corrections system. She has covered major national stories, including all angles of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2022 trucker convoy, and climate change, as a few examples. She has been on the road as a campaign reporter throughout three federal elections. In addition to the privilege of seeing all corners of Canada, her political reporting has taken her all over the world, covering the prime minister's state visits and summits such as the G7, NATO and APEC. She also covered the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in London. Abigail also enjoys finding unusual stories, like the small town of Port Elgin, Ont.'s unexpected tie to the SNC Lavalin controversy, which ended up trending on Twitter. The journalist’s roots lie in reporting and anchoring local news across southern Ontario. She launched and led an investigative unit at CTV Kitchener and spent five years as a weekend anchor and producer. Abigail’s investigative journalism has garnered two Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) awards, one in 2017 for her coverage of an unregistered nurse employed in a nursing home and another for a 2013 in-depth look at life behind bars at the Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener, Ont. She has won two RTDNA awards for her feature stories and was part of the team that won an RTDNA Best Newscast Award for federal election night coverage in 2015. Her career history includes stints at CTV News Channel, CTV Ottawa, Channel 12 (Now Global Durham) and Rogers TV (York Region). Her earliest career highlight was reporting on children’s summer camps in Ukraine for the Canadian Jewish News. Abigail earned a journalism degree from Carleton University. Outside the newsroom, Abigail is a director with the Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship (CHES). In Toronto, she previously volunteered with the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre. She also spent eight years as a weekly volunteer recording talking books with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. She loves spending time with her family, going to the theatre, and curling up with a good book. Abigail speaks English.