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Net revenue increased 816% in Q1 2026 vs. Q1 2025, and increased 527% in Q1 2026 vs. Q4 2025, buoyed by license of U.S. commercial rights for Mytesi® and Canalevia®-CA1Company continues its focus on crofelemer development efforts for rare-disease intestinal failure indications; two crofelemer presentations in pediatric intestinal failure patients with microvillus inclusion disease (MVID) and short bowel syndrome (SBS-IF) to be made at 58th Annual European Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition (ESPGHAN) Meeting in June 2026REMINDERS: Jaguar to host investor webcast Tuesday, May 26 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern regarding Q1 2026 financials and company updates (click here to register); Jaguar CEO Lisa Conte to present virtually on Thursday, May 28 at 10 a.m. Eastern at Lytham Partners Spring 2026 Investor Conference (click here to register)

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VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / May 20, 2026 / Kootenay Resources Inc. (TSXV:KTRI) (the "Company" or "Kootenay") is pleased announce that it intends to complete on a best-efforts basis, a non-brokered private placement (the "Private Placement") for aggregate gross proceeds of up to $500,000. The Private Placement will consist of a combination of non-flow-through and flow-through common shares.

BRAMPTON, ON / ACCESS Newswire / May 20, 2026 / Consumer Choice Award is proud to announce that Consumer Direct Windows and Doors has been named the 2026 Consumer Choice Award winner in the Windows & Doors category for the Greater Toronto Area. This marks the company's twelfth Consumer Choice Award win, reflecting its consistent commitment to professionalism, craftsmanship, and customer trust.

CALGARY, AB / ACCESS Newswire / May 20, 2026 / Consumer Choice Award is proud to announce that Cal-Alta Auto Glass has been named the 2026 Consumer Choice Award winner in the Automobile Windshields category. This recognition reflects the company's long-standing commitment to safety, quality, and delivering reliable service to drivers across the Calgary region.

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / May 20, 2026 / Consumer Choice Award is proud to announce that FCP Dermatology has been named the 2026 Consumer Choice Award winner in the Dermatologist category. This recognition reflects the clinic's reputation for precision, professionalism, and delivering consistently high-quality patient outcomes.

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / May 20, 2026 / Consumer Choice Award is proud to announce that SE Telecommunications Ltd has been named the 2026 Consumer Choice Award winner in the Telephone Systems Sales and Service category for the Greater Toronto Area. This recognition reflects the company's leadership in cloud communications, commitment to innovation, and reputation for delivering reliable, business-focused technology solutions.

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / May 20, 2026 / Consumer Choice Award is proud to announce that DEL Property Management Inc. has been named the 2026 Consumer Choice Award winner in the Property Management category for the Greater Toronto Area. This recognition reflects the company's longstanding reputation for excellence, scale, and consistent service across the condominium management sector.

VAUGHAN, ON / ACCESS Newswire / May 20, 2026 / Consumer Choice Award is proud to announce that Zoroast the Fireplace Store has been named the 2026 Consumer Choice Award winner in the Fireplace Sales and Services category for York Region. This recognition reflects the company's reputation for quality, expertise, and consistent customer satisfaction.

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / May 20, 2026 / Consumer Choice Award is proud to announce that Cloverhill Gardening Landscaping has been named the 2026 Consumer Choice Award winner in the Landscape Contractors category for Toronto Central. This recognition reflects the company's long-standing commitment to quality service, reliability, and customer satisfaction.

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / May 20, 2026 / Consumer Choice Award is proud to announce that Sunnyside Window & Eaves Cleaning has been named the 2026 Consumer Choice Award winner in the Window Cleaning category for the Greater Toronto Area. This recognition reflects the company's long-standing commitment to quality service, reliability, and customer satisfaction.

The Festival returns September 22-24 with new AI-powered networking, expanded access to investor meetings, and conversations shaping Canada's future in AI, quantum, aerospace, fintech, and democratic resilience.

PERTH, AUSTRALIA AND VANCOUVER, CANADA / ACCESS Newswire / May 20, 2026 / Sarama Resources Ltd. ("Sarama" or the "Company") (TSXV:SWA)(ASX:SRR) is pleased to announce it has received binding commitments for a private placement to raise A$1.5 million (before costs) (the "Placement").

Only Critical Event Management Provider to Achieve the U.S. Government's Highest Cloud Security Standard

RED DEER, AB / ACCESS Newswire / May 20, 2026 / Consumer Choice Award is pleased to announce the 2026 award recipients in the Central Alberta region. These businesses have been meticulously selected through independent market research, reflecting their commitment to excellence and unparalleled service in their city. Consumer Choice Award celebrates those who have consistently set the benchmark for quality and customer satisfaction. Congratulations to the 2026 Central Alberta Consumer Choice Award Winners.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / May 20, 2026 / Kidoz Inc. (TSXV:KDOZ)(OTCQB:KDOZF), a full-stack advertising platform powered by contextual AI, enabling brand performance in mobile games without personal data, today announced the appointment of Tarrnie Williams Jr. as Chief Operating Officer, formalizing his leadership of the Company's product, technology, and operational functions since joining Kidoz in 2019.

MONTREAL, QC / ACCESS Newswire / May 20, 2026 / First Canadian Graphite Inc. (TSXV:FCI)(OTCQB:GRAPF) reports positive results from an airborne time-domain electromagnetic (TDEM) and magnetic survey conducted, completing 857 line-kilometres across seven priority zones at the Company's Lac Guéret South property, located in the southwest Manicouagan reservoir area, 234 km north-northwest of Baie-Comeau, in the Côte-Nord administrative region of Québec on the Nitassinan (ancestral territory) of the Pessamit Innu. The results outlined numerous conductive high priority anomalies and favourable geological conditions across all seven surveyed blocks.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / May 20, 2026 / Gemdale Gold Inc. (TSXV:GEMG)(OTCQB:GDGIF) ("Gemdale" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has granted an aggregate of 520,000 stock options (the "Options") and 477,273 restricted share units (the "RSUs") to certain directors, officers, employees and consultants of the Company pursuant to its long-term incentive plan (the "Plan").

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / May 20, 2026 / Ameriwest Critical Metals Inc. (CSE:AWCM)(OTC:AWLIF)(FSE:5HV) ("Ameriwest" or the "Company") is pleased to announce a key exploration advancement at its 100%-owned Bornite copper-gold-silver property in Oregon ("Bornite" or the "Property"). The Company has transported approximately 30 pallets of preserved historical drill core (the "Core") from the Bornite Project to a secure storage facility in Reno, Nevada, operated by APEX Geoscience Ltd. ("APEX"), where a systematic core re-logging program has commenced.

Company to advance additional preclinical studies and pursue government partnership opportunities for bucillamine as a potential franchise asset for infectious diseases, nerve-agent exposure, future pandemics and medical countermeasure stockpiling

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / May 20, 2026 / Metallic Minerals Corp. (TSXV:MMG)(OTCQB:MMNGF)(FSE:9MM1) ("Metallic" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the appointments of Regina Molloy as Vice President, Exploration, Miguel Nassif as Lead Geoscientist, and Allison Coppel as Senior ESG Advisor, strengthening the Company's technical, exploration, and external relations capabilities as it advances its La Plata copper-silver-gold-PGE critical minerals project in Colorado and its Keno Silver project in Yukon.

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / May 20, 2026 / High Tide Resources Corp. ("High Tide" or the "Company") (CSE:HTRC) is pleased to announce details of its 2026 exploration and technical program at the Company's flagship Labrador West Iron Project. The upcoming field season is designed to significantly advance the Project through targeted drilling, metallurgical test work, environmental baseline studies, and key economic evaluations.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / May 20, 2026 / BeMetals Corp. (TSXV:BMET)(OTCQB:BMTLF)(Frankfurt:1OI.F) ("BeMetals" or the "Company") is pleased to provide a progress update on the status of the transactions contemplated under the share purchase agreement dated April 15, 2026 (the "Agreement") with Prospector Metals Corp. ("Prospector") (TSXV:PPP)(OTCQB:PMCOF)(Frankfurt:1ET0) pursuant to which BeMetals has agreed to acquire Prospector's remaining viable non-Yukon mineral exploration projects and certain marketable securities (collectively, the "Subject Assets" as described below) in exchange for 29,400,000 common shares of BeMetals on a post-consolidation basis (the "Acquisition") (see the Company's news release dated April 16, 2026 for further details about the Acquisition).

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / May 20, 2026 / Strategic Metals Ltd. (TSXV:SMD) ("Strategic") announces that it has granted GT Resources Inc. ("GT") a staged option to acquire up to a seventy-five percent (75%) interest in the CD copper-gold porphyry property, located in west-central Yukon, approximately 75 km southwest of Western Copper and Gold Corporation's Casino deposit.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / May 20, 2026 / CoTec Holdings Corp. (TSXV:CTH)(OTCQB:CTHCF) ("CoTec" or the "Company") is pleased to announce an updated independent Preliminary Economic Assessment ("2026 PEA") for the Lac Jeannine Iron Tailings Project, Québec, Canada ("Lac Jeannine", or the "Project") which includes a new Mineral Resource Estimate (the "2026 MRE") that was developed following the August 2025 drilling programi and is consistent with the previous PEA and Technical Report filed in 2024 ("2024 PEA").ii

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Company aims to test district-scale hypothesis at Star Project

LONDON, UK AND CALGARY, AB / ACCESS Newswire / May 20, 2026 / Mkango Resources Ltd. (AIM:MKA)(TSXV:MKA) ("Mkango" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has signed an asset purchase agreement with Heraeus Amloy Technologies GmbH, to acquire its Remloy rare earth magnet recycling business ("Remloy") for €8 million (US$9.4 million) in cash, of which €5 million (US$5.6 million) is payable on closing, expected within the next three months, and €3 million (US$3.5 million) payable two years after closing (the "Transaction"). The initial payment of €5 million (US$5.6 million) will be funded from Mkango's existing cash balance following its £12.5 million (US$16.8 million) equity placement, which closed on April 10, 2026.

ECO (ATLANTIC) OIL & GAS LTD.("Eco," "Eco Atlantic," "Company," or together with its subsidiaries, the "Group")Navitas Petroleum exercises option to farm into Block 1 CBK, offshore South Africa

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The Dallas Mavericks are "parting ways" with head coach Jason Kidd in a decision agreed by both parties, the NBA team said Tuesday.

Outside the San Diego mosque where his father was gunned down by heavily armed teenagers who had been radicalized online, Ramzy sits and stares blankly.