Abigail Bimman

Global National Ottawa Correspondent

Abigail Bimman is an award-winning journalist and an Ottawa-based correspondent for Global National.

She joined Global’s Ottawa bureau in 2017. Just three months later, she had a front-row seat to a standout moment in the Trudeau government’s story: covering the disastrous state visit to India aboard the Prime Minister’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 stories that capture national attention, and continues to do so daily, including all angles of the COVID pandemic over several years, the 2022 trucker convoy, foreign affairs and climate change, as a few examples.

She was on the road as a campaign reporter on busses and planes with the Liberals, NDP and Conservatives throughout the 2021 and 2019 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 time her reporting got the small town of Port Elgin, Ontario trending on twitter, with an unexpected tie to the SNC Lavalin controversy.

The journalist’s roots lie in reporting and anchoring local news across Southern Ontario. Before joining Global, she was based in Kitchener, leading CTV’s local investigative unit. She also spent five years as weekend anchor and producer.

During her time with CTV, Abigail’s investigative journalism was recognized by the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) in the form of two 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.

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 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.