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BURNABY, BC / ACCESS Newswire / December 18, 2025 / Ostrom Climate Solutions Inc. ("Ostrom" or the "Company") (TSXV:COO)(Frankfurt:9EAA), a leading provider of carbon project development, net-zero climate solutions, and carbon credit marketing and trading, today announced that it has entered into a mutual settlement and termination agreement with its counterparty to fully exit the Emission Reduction Purchase Agreement ("ERPA") originally executed on April 17, 2024, in respect of the Climate-Smart Agriculture Project in the Upper Pampanga region of the Philippines ("UPRIIS"). The ERPA is terminated effective December 8, 2025. Due to confidentiality obligations, further settlement details cannot be disclosed.

Targeting near-mine indications of high-grade quartz vein lodesHIGHLIGHTSHigh resolution survey over northern portion of EL 6502, which hosts the Challenger Gold MineTargeting gravity anomalies indicative of structures similar to Challenger's high-grade gold lodes

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / December 18, 2025 / Sun Peak Metals Corp. (TSXV:PEAK)(OTCQB:SUNPF) ("Sun Peak" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the successful completion of its previously announced transaction pursuant to which Sun Peak acquired all of the issued and outstanding shares (the "SDC Shares") of Saudi Discovery Company SPV Limited ("SDC" or "Saudi Discovery"), by way of a share exchange (the "Transaction").

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / December 18, 2025 / LIR Life Sciences Corp. (CSE:SKNY)(Frankfurt:N790, WKN: A41QA9) ("LIR" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that Dr. Peter Singer, a global health expert and former Special Advisor to the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), has joined the Company as a Scientific Advisor.

Achieves another quarter of higher-than-expected revenue and profitability and hits the top-end of cash flow guidanceQNX division achieves highest revenue quarter everSecure Communications division beats revenue and adjusted EBITDA guidance, raises full year guidanceDelivers seventh consecutive quarter of improved GAAP profitability and third consecutive quarter of positive GAAP net income

Carnival represents the second anchor offtake agreement announced in connection with the Galveston LNG project.

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TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / December 18, 2025 / PPX Mining Corp. (the "Company" or "PPX") is pleased to announce the voting results from the Company's Annual General and Special Meeting of Shareholders held on December 18, 2025 at 82 Richmond Street East, Toronto Ontario, Canada.

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / December 18, 2025 / Forum Asset Management ("Forum") today announced the final close of Forum Priority Partners Development Fund I ("PPDF I" or the "Fund"), achieving total equity commitments of $88M+. Raising the full fund amount within the target rangemarks a significant milestone for Forum and underscores strong investor demand for access to its proven development platform and expanding pipeline of high conviction projects.

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Investment signals strong endorsement of Claranova's mission to transform public health through advanced UV disinfection technologyNot for distribution to U.S. news wire services or for dissemination in the United States

DENVER, CO / ACCESS Newswire / December 18, 2025 / Vox Royalty Corp. (TSX:VOXR)(NASDAQ:VOXR) ("Vox" or the "Company"), a returns-focused mining royalty and streaming company, is pleased to announce that it has executed a binding agreement to acquire an existing royalty over the feasibility-stage Stockman copper-gold-zinc-silver project ("Stockman") in Victoria, Australia.

November sales reach $2.05 million with ~30% gross margins

Quebec Leader in property and casualty insurance deploys AI agents to automate personal insurance processes, reduce processing times, optimize broker advisory services

MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA / ACCESS Newswire / December 18, 2025 / LQR House Inc. (the "Company" or "LQR House") (NASDAQ:YHC), a niche ecommerce platform specializing in the spirits and beverage industry, today announced that it has entered into securities purchase agreements with new and existing investors and certain directors and officers of the Company, for the purchase and sale of 7,249,972 shares of common stock at a purchase price of $0.90 per share, pursuant to a registered direct offering, resulting in gross proceeds of approximately $6.52 million, before deducting placement agent commissions and other offering expenses. The closing of the offering is expected to occur on or about December 19, 2025, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

CRANBROOK, BC / ACCESS Newswire / December 18, 2025 / Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. (TSXV:EPL)(OTCQB:EGPLF) ("EPL" or "Eagle Plains") is pleased to announce that partner Refined Energy Corp (CSE: RUU; OTC: RFMCF; FRA: CWA0) ("Refined") has approved a proposal for a 2026 exploration program, which will include a minimum of 1200 meters of diamond drilling, at Eagle Plains' 100% owned Dufferin West Property, Saskatchewan.

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / December 18, 2025 / Route1 Inc. (TSXV:ROI) ("Route1" or the "Company"), a leading engineering and professional services firm specializing in the deployment and integration of ALPR and other advanced data capture-based technologies to city, state, and federal first responder departments, public safety, colleges and universities, and parking managers, announces that it filed on December 16, 2025 a provisional patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office titled "Hierarchical and Distributed Signal Processing Pipeline Architecture for Low-latency Machine Learning and Scalable Agentic Artificial Intelligence Coordination and Training".

Drill hole RY-25-04 bottomed in 1,465 g/t silver over 1.97 metresMulti-element geochemical analysis is consistent with the margins of a Reduced Intrusion Related Gold System ("RIRGS")

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / December 18, 2025 / (TSXV:OGN)(OTCQB:OGNNF) Orogen Royalties Inc. ("Orogen" or the "Company") is pleased to announce an exploration update on the Ermitaño gold mine forming part of the Santa Elena mine complex in Sonora Mexico, operated by First Majestic Silver Corp. ("First Majestic"). 1 Orogen holds a cash-flowing 2% net smelter return ("NSR") royalty on the 167 square-kilometre Ermitaño concession.

Patriot.TV (CBMJ) growth exceeds Disney (DIS), Paramount Global (PARA), Comcast (CMCSA), Newsmax (NMAX), Sinclair (SBGI), Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), and Fox Corp. (FOX).

Survey results will enhance effective drill targeting in early 2026

Gold And Critical Element Pursuit In The Mineral-Rich Province Of New Brunswick, Canada

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / December 18, 2025 / 1933 Industries Inc. (the "Company" or "1933 Industries") (CSE:TGIF)(OTCID:TGIFF), a Nevada-focused cannabis cultivator and producer, announces that its unsecured convertible debentures issued in 2024 (the "2024 Debentures"), with an aggregate principal amount of approximately $2,598,000 in principal value, will mature on December 31, 2025.

Deputy FBI director Dan Bongino, a former right-wing podcaster, announced on Wednesday that he would step down in January after less than 10 months on the job.

A Kylian Mbappe brace helped Real Madrid avoid an upset at third-tier Talavera as Xabi Alonso's side scraped home 3-2 to stamp their ticket into the Spanish Cup last 16 on Wednesday.

A manhunt for the mass shooter who opened fire in an exam room at one of America's top universities stretched into a fifth day Wednesday with no apparent police progress in identifying a suspect or a motive.

Rayan Cherki's stunning strike put Manchester City on their way to the League Cup semi-finals with a 2-0 win over Brentford, while holders Newcastle beat Fulham 2-1 on Wednesday.

Barcelona and Lyon clinched places in the quarter-finals of the Women's Champions League on Wednesday, while Chelsea came from behind to beat Wolfsburg and qualify directly for the last eight.

Venezuela struck a defiant note Wednesday, insisting its crude oil exports were not impacted by US President Donald Trump's announcement of a potentially crippling blockade.

Tech shares suffered another bout of weakness Wednesday on worries about an AI bubble, hitting US stocks as oil prices advanced following a US announcement of a blockade of tankers to Venezuela.

South Africa arrested and expelled seven Kenyans who had been working illegally on a US government programme to accept white Afrikaners as "refugees", the government said Wednesday.

The US Congress on Wednesday permanently ended sanctions imposed on Syria under ousted leader Bashar al-Assad, paving the way for the return of investment to the war-ravaged nation.