CPRM Radio

10/12/2025

10/12/2025

Today, October 12, is the feast of St. Carlo Acutis — the millennial blessed known as the "patron of the internet" and "God’s influencer."

He lived a short life (1991–2006), but his devotion to the Eucharist and his gift for using technology to spread the faith continue to inspire. He once said:

"Jesus is my great friend and the Eucharist is my highway to Heaven."

This image captures that spirit — rosary in hand, eyes forward, with the Eucharist glowing in the background. A reminder that holiness doesn’t have to be distant or reserved for the past; it’s possible right here, in the everyday, even with the tools of our time.

🙏 St. Carlo Acutis, pray for us.

10/12/2025

We are not ornaments. We are not silence. Montreal’s minorities are not here for display—we are here to decide, to shape, to belong. ✊🏽

10/12/2025

Barzaga’s Gamble, Senate’s Silence

While the Philippine Senate retreats into recess and pretends the country’s crises can wait, Cavite Rep. Kiko Barzaga is out in the streets, calling the people to rally. His message: corruption must be named, and the Marcos brand must be held to account.

It is a gamble. Within the House, his impeachment push has been dismissed as impossible, even laughed off by veteran power-brokers. Yet Barzaga chooses the plaza over the plenary, the chant over the committee hearing. That alone reveals the hollowness of our institutions: when an elected representative believes the only way to be heard is to step outside the chamber, the legislative branch has already failed its duty.

This is not about whether one likes Barzaga or not. The deeper issue is the vacuum of courage inside the Senate and House alike. With billions at stake in the national budget, with allegations of ghost projects and flood-control rackets, lawmakers choose discretion, delay, and silence. They trade oversight for self-preservation.

So the paradox stands: the streets are noisy, the Senate is quiet. Which one, really, represents the pulse of democracy?

Barzaga may or may not spark a groundswell tonight. But his act strips bare the cowardice of a chamber that hides behind recess and procedure while the people demand answers. If the legislature refuses to speak truth to power, the streets will.

10/12/2025

FAMAS’ Past Admin and the Myth of Transparency

The Filipino Association of Montreal and Suburbs (FAMAS) past administration parades this sheet as “transparency.” In truth, it’s a hollow report — just a list of supposed repair costs with round numbers, checkmarks, and a total of $57,293.

Notice what’s missing:

No list of fundraising income.

No record of donations or membership dues collected.

No receipts, no contractors, no timelines.

This isn’t accountability. It’s a distraction — a way for the past admin to claim they “reported” while keeping the money trail in the dark.

If FAMAS is to rebuild credibility, the first step is admitting this wasn’t transparency at all. The community deserves the truth: where the money really came from, and how it was actually spent.

10/12/2025

Conservative Leader Meets Enbridge CEO to Discuss Canada’s Energy Future

Toronto – Conservative Party leader [Name] met with Enbridge CEO Greg Ebel this week to discuss Canada’s role in the global energy market.

In a statement following the meeting, the Conservative leader said the party’s vision is to position Canada as an “energy superpower,” pointing to opportunities in pipeline expansion and resource development. He argued that current federal policies—including the tanker moratorium, Bill C-69, the federal carbon pricing system, and caps on oil and gas production—have limited growth in the sector.

The Conservatives have pledged that if elected, they would repeal those measures to encourage investment, accelerate pipeline construction, and increase energy exports.

Enbridge, one of North America’s largest pipeline and energy infrastructure companies, has been at the center of ongoing debates over Canada’s climate policy, energy security, and infrastructure development.

The meeting comes as discussions about balancing Canada’s environmental commitments with its resource economy continue to shape the national political agenda.

10/12/2025

When politics masquerades as intimacy, the people end up betrayed.
Behind the smiles and the silence lies a pact written not in devotion, but in power.

10/12/2025

The ICC decision didn’t just cite Sara Duterte — it weaponized her words. What should have been family remarks became political daggers. Evidence for The Hague, strategy for Malacañang.

10/12/2025

Canada’s Quiet Cowardice

Canada likes to drape itself in a story of bravery—Vimy Ridge, peacekeeping blue helmets, maple leaf flags flying in faraway wars. But peel back the myth, and what you see too often is a country allergic to confrontation, paralyzed by its own politeness.

In politics, Ottawa is the capital of delay. Scandals drag on for years under the weight of “further study.” Indigenous communities boil water on stoves while governments wring their hands. Housing is crushed under speculation, yet leaders tiptoe around developers. It isn’t that Canadians can’t see the fire—they just whisper about it in the corner, hoping not to offend whoever struck the match.

This quiet cowardice shows up beyond politics. Citizens mutter at bus stops about transit cuts but won’t raise their voices at city hall. They complain about foreign wars from behind a keyboard but won’t march in the street. When action threatens to get messy, Canada retreats into comfort: committees, consultations, and coffee.

Cowardice here doesn’t wear armor or wave a white flag—it wears a polite smile. The question is whether Canadians can trade in the safety of “sorry” for the grit of “enough.” Because history won’t remember how nicely a nation avoided conflict. It will remember whether it chose to stand when it mattered.

10/12/2025

The Sweetness of Lanzones, The Bitterness of Denial

Camiguin sells itself to the world through the Lanzones Festival — a week of parades, costumes, and pageantry that flaunts “culture” and “heritage.” Tourists flock, cameras click, officials wave. But behind the sugar-sweet branding lies a bitter truth: the same politicians who bask in the glory of this “cultural” festival are the ones denying the very existence of Camiguin’s Indigenous Peoples.

Congressman Jurdin Jesus “Buwaya” Romualdo went so far as to call IPs “land grabbers” and vowed never to recognize them. The provincial board even passed a resolution declaring there were no Indigenous Peoples in Camiguin “since time immemorial.” Convenient words when land and power are at stake. Erasure is the oldest trick in the politician’s handbook: deny the people, deny their rights, deny their claims.

And yet the Kamigin tribe stands with documents in hand: NCIP certificates, ancestral domain claims, even linguistic proof of a distinct heritage. They are there. They have always been there. To celebrate a harvest festival while erasing the very people rooted deepest in the soil is hypocrisy at its purest.

The Lanzones Festival, in truth, has become a theater of selective memory. Officials commodify “culture” for tourism and PR, but silence and strip away the uncomfortable part of culture that demands justice, land, and recognition. What does it say about a province that can dance in the streets in colorful costumes while legislating whole communities out of existence?

Camiguin cannot have it both ways. If it wants to parade its “heritage,” it must face its history. If it wants to celebrate the sweetness of lanzones, it must reckon with the bitterness of denying its Indigenous roots. Until then, the festival is not Thanksgiving — it is propaganda. And the people should see through the mask.

10/12/2025

The administration is aggressively investigating the financial backing of groups like ANTIFA. The FBI, Homeland Security Task Force, intelligence community, and Secretary of Treasury are involved in uncovering who is funding this organized anarchy against the country. The American people will know when they find out.

10/12/2025

When Whistleblowers Are Silenced, the Whole Nation is Robbed

Another whistleblower has fallen.
On October 10, 2025, in broad daylight in Cagayan de Oro City, Niruh Kyle D. Antatico, J.D. was gunned down. His crime? Daring to speak the truth about corruption in government service. His courage made him a target. His silence was bought with bullets.

How many more names must we add to this bloody ledger? Journalists, activists, lawyers, and now a servant of the law who refused to look away. Each death does not just take one life—it steals from the public its right to accountability.

The Philippine state has failed to guarantee protection for truth-tellers. Investigations are promised, justice is invoked, and yet cases drag on until memory fades and outrage grows tired. The killers bank on impunity. And too often, they are right.

This pattern is no accident. When whistleblowers are left to fend for themselves, the message is clear: speak out, and you stand alone. But when the corrupt are shielded by power, the cycle of violence and silence tightens around us all.

Antatico’s fraternity calls him a “Champion Against Corruption, Voice of Truth.” That should shame us. Because in this country, champions of truth do not grow old—they are buried young, their legacies left for others to mourn.

The question is not just who killed him, but who benefits from his death. And why do we, as a people, continue to allow a system where the brave are executed while the corrupt thrive?

Justice for Niruh Kyle D. Antatico cannot be another slogan. It must be a turning point. For if this killing passes into the long night of unsolved murders, then we have surrendered not just one man, but the very idea that integrity in public service is possible.

Whistleblowers are not enemies of the state—they are the last line of defense for the public good. Silencing them is not only murder. It is treason against the Filipino people.