There was a question in this community that might get you to think otherwise "Has your company lost its mind with AI, too?" (non-Cloudflare link at https://suppo.fi/post/11441199).
Seriously if you want to learn GenAI (or AI) workflows, start using them yourself in your personal life. That way you can honestly try it out and maybe even create something. If you do follow a tutorial, don't create and publish exactly what they do (as everyone else has done that).
If I were him (which I'm not), I wouldn't appear before any political panels after what they did to him the first thing. All the panellists want is sound bites to make him look bad.
There are multiple ways that I know of (depending on what works for you): Bypass Paywalls Clean (extension and an adblock filter), archive.today (see Wikipedia for the most accurate URL's), sometimes the full article is available on archive.org, there's also the option of searching for the article title in quotes and finding another site that has reposted the entire article (sometimes it's MSN, and other times it's a site you've never read of).
Nice to see they [the conference] are staying away from the USA. While Japan does have a history of being racist towards those who aren't born and living in Japan, I feel like those who will attend DebConf27 will stay in the tourist areas and do tourist things.
They mention in the US they are affiliated with the US branch of Communications Workers of America (CWA). "Separately, the WWU-UK branch has affiliated with United Tech and Allied Workers (UTAW), a national branch of the Communication Workers Union (CWU)." You can see their FAQ for more details.
If you prefer reading, there's great articles by OpenMedia, and many by Michael Geist.
For the latest on if the bill has passed (and what stage), see the Parliament of Canada website.
If you want to read a Canadian perspective on this, CBC has an article on this exact thing.