{"id":9125,"date":"2023-11-29T22:30:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T03:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fibrocanada.ca\/?page_id=9125"},"modified":"2026-05-27T09:42:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:42:51","slug":"summer2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fibrocanada.ca\/en\/summer2023","title":{"rendered":"Summer 2023 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Below you will find the Fibromyalgia Association Canada's Summer 2023 Edition of \"<em>Just the FACs<\/em>\". FAC hopes you enjoy the interesting and informative articles inside.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please mark the date for&nbsp;the&nbsp;<strong>2nd Annual General Meeting<\/strong>&nbsp;of Fibromyalgia Association Canada which will be held on&nbsp;<strong>Monday, September 11th, 2023 at 2:30 pm ET<\/strong>&nbsp;on Zoom. A&nbsp;formal notice will be sent out by email, not less than 21 days prior to the meeting. Once you accept the invitation to attend the AGM you will be sent the Zoom link and Agenda. The Agenda will also be on our website and Social Media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fibromyalgia Association Canada is also celebrating their 2nd Fibromyalgia Awareness week, September 5 -12th, 2023. We have lined up 3 live speakers and various recordings. The speakers are Dr. Alia Norman, who will be speaking on Cannabis use in people with fibromyalgia, David Brannen, a prominent disability lawyer who will be speaking on fibromyalgia and disability, and Dr. Andrea Furlan, who will be speaking on getting diagnosed with fibromyalgia and educating our GP's. We will send an Agenda for the speakers and recordings once we finalize the schedule.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You will be hearing from us soon with the formal AGM announcement and our schedule for Fibromyalgia Awareness Week.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have a good read.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Yours truly<\/strong><br><strong>Trudy Flynn<\/strong><br><strong>Chair&nbsp;Fibromyalgia Association Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fibrocanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/FAC-Newsletter-Summer-2023-EN.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"width:750px;\" data-width=\"750\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">FAC-Newsletter-Summer-2023-EN<\/a><\/div>\n\n<p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/fibrocanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/FAC-Newsletter-Summer-2023-EN.pdf\" style=\"background-color:#6a0dad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download and Share<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#6a0dad\"><strong>Archives<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below you will find the Fibromyalgia Association Canada&#8217;s Summer 2023 Edition of &#8220;Just the FACs&#8221;. 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