IN THIS ISSUE:

• Fill out the survey to inform the next iteration of CPN
• Read the latest Patient's Corner to hear about our patient partners experience at CPS
• Watch a webinar about Pain Connect
• Check out the latest UofTMed issue focused on pain

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Read an update from Chronic Pain Network Scientific Director, Dr. Norm Buckley
• Learn more about the new Rapid Recommendations for use of cannabis and cannabinoids to treat chronic pain
• Meet Patient Perspective Partner Janet Gunderson
• Find out how Delane Linkiewich turned chronic pain into inspiration

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Read an update from Chronic Pain Network Scientific Director, Dr. Norm Buckley
• Find out what happened during National Pain Awareness Week 2021
• Learn about the CircaPain Project
• Check out some highlights from the Annual Report

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IN THIS ISSUE:

• Signal49 Research examines how CPN has contributed to changing the pain research landscape over the past decade.
• Dr. Norm Buckley and Desmond Williams answer questions on CBC radio show Just Asking.
• Launch of the Professional Development and Training Award.
• Knowledge Mobilization Grant Consultations by CPN.

IN THIS ISSUE:

• The launch of Arthritis Action Now in this months Patient's Corner.
• The Chronic Pain Network is building a national Pain Atlas - a searchable database of pain researchers across Canada.
• New CRPS Quick Reference Sheet
• Tri-Agency Narrative CV Guide: A resource for creating narrative CVs for CIHR, NSERC, and SSHRC funding applications

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Action on Pain Podcast in the News: Open Access Government features an article on the Action on Pain Podcast.
• Borrowed Lenses: Partnership in Practice, a People with Lived Experience and Trainee Lunch at the CPS ASM
• Call for Submissions: PAIN Cover Art
• QPRN Lunch and Talk Series

IN THIS ISSUE:

• CPN's Delane Linkiewich and Linda Wilhelm were on the Action on Pain podcast speaking about My Pain Assessment and Communication Tool, known as MPaCT.
• Café Scientifique exploring youth and family experiences of chronic pain and the essential role of primary and community care
• New Pain Connect Opportunity: The VISIBLE Study

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Trials in Real Life: Not Black and White, But Grey All Over, presentation by CPN's Therese Lane at CTO’s 2025 Clinical Trials Conference.
• Pain in dementia: A systematic review of the measurement properties of observational assessment tools
• The Putting the Pieces Together (PTPT) Conference: Steering Committee Member Opportunity
• Checking In On Canadians: Men’s Mental Health, Stigma, and AI Trends as We Enter 2026

IN THIS ISSUE:

• 2026-2029 Strategic Plan for the Chronic Pain Network
• Etuaptmumk: Cultural Foundations of Two-Eyed Seeing for Conducting L’nu Research in Mi'kma'ki
• Passerelle webinar: Introduction to td-nets understanding of transdisciplinary research and three types of knowledge
• Putting Patients First 2026 Conference March 3, 2026

IN THIS ISSUE:

• My Pain Is Not a Number: Development of the My Pain Assessment and Communication Tool (MPaCT)
• Survey Invitation: Predictors of Chronic Postsurgical Pain After Breast Cancer Surgery
• Fibromyalgia Association Canada Fibro Chat: Recognizing the International Day of Persons with Disabilities
• Pain Connect Opportunity: Opioid tapering experiences in people living with chronic non-cancer pain: a qualitative descriptive study

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Putting the Pieces Together Conference November 3 - 7, 2025
• Painful Truths: Common Threads in a Tapestry of Chronic Pain
• Celebrating the Film: Your Voice Matters November 18
• 2025 Annual Pain Centre Conference - Advancing pediatric pain care equity:Addressing challenges and opportunities in low- and middle-income countries November 5-6, 2025

IN THIS ISSUE:

• National Day for Truth & Reconciliation and International Pain Awareness Month. Hear what John R. Sylliboy and Margot Latimer, co-chairs of CPN's Indigenous Health Research Advisory Committee (IHRAC) are up to.
• Patient Engagement in Clinical Trials Study
• JOIN: The Global Alliance of Partners for Pain Advocacy (GAPPA)
• National Pain Rounds - A discussion between scientists, health professionals, educators, and pain advocates on a myriad of topics related to chronic pain.

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Action on Pain podcast, launching on September 2, 2025 during International Pain Awareness Month.
• Masakit (It Hurts): Pain as a Cultural and Collective Community Experience—Using Digital Storytelling to Dig Deeper from CPN patient partner Jenny Lorca.
• I Choose Lemonade: CPN-AbSPORU Digital Storytelling project from CPN patient partner Heather Dyck.
• Solutions for Kids in Pain (SKIP) invites you to take part in an important survey

IN THIS ISSUE:

• The Role of People With Lived Experience At Pain Conferences: Progress and Ongoing Challenges, from Therese Lane.
• Co-Creating Better Care: Developing the CARING Framework at the CPN Hackathon, from Swapnil Shah
• Congratulations to CPN patient partner Jennifer Daly-Cyr, Clinical Research Network member Gabrielle Pagé, as well as fellow Canadians, Tori Etheridge, and Justina Marianayagam who have been named Mayday Fellows.
• Quebec Network of Junior Pain Investigators (QNJPI) presents PAINtalks

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IN THIS ISSUE:

• Patient's Corner spotlight Jennifer Lorca and Heather Dyck on their experiences presenting at the recent NorthWest SPOR.
• Dr. Tania Di Renna, the president of the Canadian Pain Society (CPS) and Jennifer Daly-Cyr, CPN Patient Partner join host Nam Kiwanuka on (MIS)Treated, a TVO podcast, .
• Registrations is open for Ontario SPOR Support Unit Research day.

IN THIS ISSUE:

• The CPN Training and Capacity Building Committee is hosting a "Hack-a-thon" event! We invite CPN trainees to join diverse, interprofessional teams to "hack" a priority problem in pain.
• Introducing "In Motion" - CPN’s New Research Spotlight Series.
• Recruitment for the JIA Option Map Study.
• PAIN+ are looking for volunteers to help rate articles for Pain+.

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Indigenous Clinicians Gathering:The experts on Indigenous People’s health are Indigenous People and they are leading this gathering to explore how to develop a plan for deeper action as an Indigenous pain and hurt strategy in Canada. .
• The Chronic Pain Network was a part of Global Heroes September issue.
• CPN-KMIS Professional Development & Training Award has Launched.
• 44th Annual Canadian Pain Society Scientific Meeting April 27-30th Ottawa, ON.