It's time for Tech Talk with Adam Oldfield!

Topics include: Christmas lunch at the Rotary Club of Hamilton, digital wars, plant a tree Instagram campaign, a new search engine on the market, Killer Robots and more! 

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

This week in politics! 

GUEST: Richard Brennan, Former Journalist with The Toronto Star covering both Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill

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Ontario will end Grade 9 academic and applied streaming in all courses by September 2022.

The practice, which asks students to choose between pursuing academic or applied courses upon entering the secondary-school system, has drawn criticism at home and abroad for decades.

Critics argue streaming disproportionately funnels Black and other racialized students into applied streams, limiting their future prospects and entrenching inequity into the province’s education system.

GUEST: Paul Caccamo, Vice President of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation

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Ontario Hockey League history will be made Friday night at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium.

On the schedule, it’s a regular-season OHL game in the middle of November between the Rangers and the visiting Owen Sound Attack. On the ice, there’s greater significance.

Kirsten Welsh will be officiating her first OHL regular season game, the first female linesperson in league history. Her first OHL game was during the pre-season in Mississauga.

GUEST: Kirsten Welsh, OHL Referee who will become the first female to ref an on-ice OHL regular season tonight

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The longest partial lunar eclipse of the century is due to take place next week between Nov. 18 and 19.

NASA forecasts that the almost-total eclipse of the Micro Beaver Full Moon will last around 3 hours, 28 minutes and 23 seconds — beginning at approximately 2:19 a.m. EST (7:19 a.m. UTC); reaching its maximum around 4 a.m. EST (9 a.m. UTC); and ending at 5:47 a.m. EST (10:47 a.m. UTC). The Micro Beaver moon is so named because it occurs when the moon is at the farthest point from earth and in the lead-up to beaver-trapping season.

GUEST: Hanno Rein, Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics with the University of Toronto

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This year's holiday wish list could look a bit different for Canadians, as the hope of giving and receiving the latest gadget or toy is replaced by the hope that they are even available, according to a new poll on supply chain bottlenecks by KPMG in Canada.

GUEST: Peter Hughes, National Leader of KPMG’s Consumer Practice

Chief’s Townhall with Hamilton Police Chief Frank Bergen 

Topic include: Police Budget discussions, Police Mental Health and more. 

GUEST: Hamilton Police Chief Frank Bergen