Radio CPAM was created to meet the urgent need for an intra-community communications service for Montreal’s Haitian population in the years following the Duvalier dictatorship, an era which saw the emergence of various weekend radio programs hosted by community stations.

It was generally believed that the fall of that dictatorship would bring about some meaningful change in the situation in Haiti. Unfortunately, the country’s misfortunes continued and in fact have persisted to this day. Weekend programming was simply no longer adequate for the needs of Montreal’s Haitian community.

Then, with the closure of several AM radio stations in the 1990s, it was possible to build a radio station for the city from the ground up, with an antenna and a 1,000-watt transmitter and comprising studios set up over a Kim Phat food store in Montreal’s east end. Finally, in 2013, the station received permission to increase transmission power to 10,000 watts.

CPAM’s mission is to operate an ethnic French-language radio station in Montreal providing programming that caters to the needs of French-speaking ethnic communities of Haitian, Latin-American and African backgrounds in the greater Montreal area.

For this great success, CPAM wishes to thank the Lord, who has allowed our mission to prosper for 20 years. In keeping with the solemnity of that wish, CPAM has called on Archbishop Christian Lépine to preside at a Eucharistic celebration to mark the occasion.

Your presence is important to us, and you are cordially invited to take part in this Mass with us:

On Sunday, October 16, 2022

At 2:30 p.m.

At Mary Queen of the World Cathedral, located at the intersection of René-Lévesque and Mansfield.