Grouse hunting season opens across most of northwestern Ontario on September 15. Ruffed grouse, spruce grouse and sharp-tailed grouse are the most common upland game birds in the northwest. The daily ...

CTV News' Lydia Chubak captured candid footage of a mother ruffed grouse and her chicks nesting in her backyard in Timmins, Ont., during her lunch hour on June 18, 2026.