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News Release Highlights:Vanta has been issued a Distillery Manufacturer Licence from the British Columbia Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch (LCRB), authorizing commercial spirits manufacturing within a dedicated licensed production area at the Company's 40,000-square-foot British Columbia beverage manufacturing facility.The Distillery Manufacturer Licence significantly expands Vanta's vertically integrated beverage manufacturing platform, enabling contract manufacturing, co-packing and product development across multiple beverage alcohol categories, including spirits, ready-to-drink (RTD) beverages, wines, coolers and emerging better-for-you adult beverage products, while creating additional opportunities to increase facility utilization and diversify revenue streams.The Distillery Manufacturer Licence builds upon the Company's previously announced BC Liquor Co-Packing Licence, establishing Naturo as a licensed manufacturer under British Columbia's regulatory framework and further strengthening Vanta's diversified beverage manufacturing and commercialization platform.

News Release Highlights:Vanta enters into an exclusive Global Brand Partnership and Master Distribution Agreement with Animal Spirits Limited, doing business as PickelBall Pixels (PBX), establishing a global framework for the development, commercialization, manufacture, distribution and sale of PBX-branded premium hydration and longevity-focused beverage and nutraceutical products incorporating Vanta Blackwater's proprietary formulations, manufactured by Vanta and marketed under the "Powered by Vanta Blackwater" designation.The Global Brand Partnership and Master Distribution Agreement combines Vanta's proprietary formulations and vertically integrated manufacturing platform with PBX's consumer brand and distribution capabilities to pursue commercialization opportunities within the rapidly growing global pickleball market and broader sports, fitness, wellness and lifestyle consumer sectors.The five-year Global Brand Partnership and Master Distribution Agreement includes minimum annual purchase commitments throughout the initial term, subject to the terms and conditions of the Agreement, and supports Vanta's strategy of scaling its branded consumer products, contract manufacturing and strategic commercialization platform through third-party brand partnerships.

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IRVINE, CA / ACCESS Newswire / June 30, 2026 / Allied Universal®, the world's leading security and facility services provider, today released a video message from Global Chairman and CEO Steve Jones commemorating the 250th anniversary of the United States and honoring the individuals, organizations and communities whose contributions continue to strengthen the nation.

- Acquisition of Zymo and Indata Copper-Gold Projects from Eastfield Resources would materially increase drill-ready targets, exploration upside, and long-term development opportunities

Company Invites Investors to Submit Questions to be Answered on the Webcasted Earnings Call

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / June 30, 2026 / Datametrex AI Limited (the "Company" or "Datametrex'') (TSXV:DM)(FSE:D4G)(OTC:DTMXF) is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, QuantIP Licensing Corp. (formerly Paymetrex Payment Solutions Inc.), has completed an evaluation of 2 patents from its intellectual property portfolio using 2 artificial intelligence-driven patent analytics platforms.

PARIS, FR / ACCESS Newswire / June 30, 2026 / Pacific Avenue Capital Partners ("Pacific Avenue"), a global private equity firm focused on corporate carve-outs and other complex transactions in the middle market, today announced that an affiliate of Pacific Avenue has completed the acquisition of ESE World (the "Company" or "ESE") from Amcor, one of the world's leading packaging companies.

Drill Core Dataset Averaging 8.2% Mn Simulated to Upgrade to 17.5% Mn While Rejecting Approximately 57% of Material Prior to ProcessingHigher-selectivity simulated sorting scenarios produced concentrate grades approaching 33% Mn

Over 7,700 metres of infill drilling also completed in H1-2026 at Navidad's Winter Vein with multiple significant gold and silver intercepts

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / June 30, 2026 / Silver Wolf Exploration Ltd. (TSXV:SWLF) ("Silver Wolf" or the "Company") is pleased to provide an update on the ongoing drilling program at the La Recompensa Au-Zn contact skarn target within the Ana Maria claims. Of particular significance, one drill hole (LRE26-05) intercepted 2.78 metres of garnet-magnetite-hematite skarn at the contact between limestone and the El Sarnoso intrusive rock.

WEST PALM BEACH, FL / ACCESS Newswire / June 30, 2026 / U.S. Polo Assn.®, the official sports brand of the United States Polo Association (USPA), continues to gain global momentum in 2026, earning a series of high-profile honors and recognitions that reflect the brand's expanding footprint, deepening consumer trust, and growing influence in sports-driven content and storytelling.

FRANKLIN, IN / ACCESS Newswire / June 30, 2026 / IBC Advanced Alloys Corp. ("IBC" or the "Company") (TSX-V:IB)(OTCQB:IAALF) is pleased to announce the promotion of Jenny Gipson to President of its Nonferrous Division, which operates the Company's vertically integrated copper alloys production facility in Franklin, Ind.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / June 30, 2026 / Kalo Gold Corp. (TSX-V:KALO)(OTCID:KLGDF)(FSE:9M51) ("Kalo", "Kalo Gold" or the "Company") is pleased to report geochemical and mineralogical results from two reconnaissance drill holes VA26-DH18 and VA26-DH19 completed at Wainikoro within its 100%-owned Vatu Aurum Project.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / June 30, 2026 / CoTec Holdings Corp. (TSXV:CTH)(OTCQB:CTHCF) ("CoTec" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has filed an independent National Instrument 43-101 technical report entitled "Mineral Resource Estimate, Preliminary Economic Assessment and NI 43-101 technical report for CoTec's Lac Jeannine Mine Tailings Reclamation and Restoration Project, Canada" dated June 24, 2026 and having an effective date of March 23, 2026 prepared by., JPL GeoServices Inc., Soutex Inc., Amerston Consulting Ltd. and Axe Valley Mining Consultants Ltd (the "PEA").

MARKHAM, ON / ACCESS Newswire / June 30, 2026 / iFabric Corp. (TSX:IFA)(OTCQX:IFABF) ("iFabric") is pleased to announce that at its annual general meeting of shareholders, held on June 29, 2026, all matters put forward before shareholders for consideration and approval as set out in iFabric's information circular dated May 21, 2026 were approved by the requisite majority of votes cast at the meeting.

Female Executive Search, Diversity and Female Leadership: What Really Works – Practical Insights from One of Europe's Leading Energy Companies / Guest Speaker: EnBW Board Member & CHRO Colette Rückert-Hennen

Highlights:NQ diamond drill rig from Proterra Drilling has been mobilized to site, with drilling now underwayApproximately four (4) drillholes totaling ~1,200 metres plannedTwo deeper drillholes designed to test the large ~2.2 km × 1.8 km buried magnetic anomaly located to the southeast of the 2025 drill corridor (News Release Dated November 12, 2025)high-priority geophysical target previously tested by a single 2017 historical drill hole that did not reach the interpreted target depthTwo follow-up holes targeting extensions of the CAP25-006 niobium discovery (See News Release Dated August 27, 2025), which returned 36 m at 0.59% Nb2O5 including 10 m at 1.08% Nb2O5 within a broader mineralized zone of 62.6m at 0.39% Nb2O5, and remains open in multiple directionsSean Charland, CEO of Apex Critical Metals, commented: "Our 2025 program delivered an emerging niobium discovery at Cap, which remains open in multiple directions. Our fall geophysical survey also identified a large-scale untested 2.2 by 1.8 km geophysical anomaly that we believe has strong potential to represent a deeper carbonatite system at the Project. The Company's primary focus is advancing the Rift Rare Earth Project towards an inaugural MRE, but Cap presents a compelling opportunity to provide shareholders with additional discovery exposure and expand on last year's successes with a focused drill program this summer."

At TT-Deploy JP, Tenstorrent set new records on language and video models, launched TT-Ascalon S RISC-V CPU IP for agentic AI, and joins ai&'s sovereign heterogenous inference platform with Tenstorrent Galaxy™ superclusters, a general-purpose system that can drop in beside GPUs or stands alone.

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / June 30, 2026 / Sintana Energy Inc. (TSX-V:SEI)(AIM:SEI)(OTCQX:SEUSF) announces that the Company's Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders (the "Meeting") will be held at 10:00 a.m. (EDT) on Thursday, 6 August 2026 at 17 State Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10004.

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / June 30, 2026 / Sintana Energy Inc. (TSXV:SEI)(AIM:SEI)(OTCQX:SEUSF) ("Sintana" or the "Company") reports that a total of 4,200,000 restricted share units ("RSUs") previously granted to several directors and service providers of the Company vested on June 27, 2026. Accordingly, the Company reports that the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMRs") have converted RSUs into Common Shares:

Germany crashed out of the World Cup at the hands of Paraguay in the last 32 after losing 4-3 on penalties following a 1-1 draw in Foxborough on Monday.

At a makeshift morgue in the quake-hit Venezuelan port of La Guaira, forensic experts in blue gowns and caps picked their way through dozens of bodies laid out in bags under the sun.

As the World Cup hits the halfway mark, more than 1,000 drones have been detected near stadiums and over 300 of them neutralized by authorities, the White House's tournament czar said Monday.

Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham produced the magic to carry England through to the World Cup knockout stages, but questions remain over the balance of Thomas Tuchel's squad.

US meteorologists have issued an "extreme heat warning" covering World Cup host Kansas City ahead of the match between Colombia and Ghana later this week.

The US military reopened a major port in Venezuela to ease aid deliveries on Monday as the death toll from last week's devastating twin earthquakes surpassed 1,700 with tens of thousands still reported missing.

Jannik Sinner survived a major scare and a bloodied foot to open his Wimbledon title defence with a five-set victory over Miomir Kecmanovic, while Novak Djokovic had to dig deep to beat China's Wu Yibing.

Coach Hajime Moriyasu said Japan have proved they have what it takes to one day win the World Cup following a last-gasp 2-1 defeat to Brazil on Monday.

Novak Djokovic came through a tense four-set tussle with China's Wu Yibing to get his latest bid for a record 25th Grand Slam title up and running at Wimbledon on Monday.

Two-time NBA All-Star guard Ja Morant is being traded from the Memphis Grizzlies to Portland in exchange for forwards Jerami Grant and Kris Murray, ESPN reported on Monday.

The World Bank on Monday extended its climate change policy framework indefinitely, but dropped its targets for the percentage of financing that must have climate-related impacts, according to a statement.