Jourdan Resources inc., (the "Corporation" or "JOURDAN") (TSX VENTURE: JRN) is pleased to announce that it signed three letters of agreements regarding the acquisition of a 100% interest in four major uranium properties. The acquisition of a 100% interest in two (2) properties totalling 234 mining claims covering 126 km2 located in the Wakeham sedimentary basin on the St. Lawrence Lower North Shore of the Province of Quebec constitutes a fundamental acquisition for the Corporation as it intends to allocate a large portion of its resources on these two (2) properties. The first property, known as the "Lac Bernard property" is composed of 124 claims, while the second property known as the "Lac Nobel property" is composed of 110 claims. The second acquisition consist of 64 claims located in the Otish Mountain area, Province of Quebec, known as the "Urika property...

Petrolia (TSX VENTURE: PEA) announces the nomination of Bernard Granger as chief geologist. He holds a master degree in geology from the Universite de Montreal and is a member of l'Ordre des geologues du Quebec and of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Mr. Granger has 32 years of experience in the petroleum exploration sector.

During his career, he held various technical and administrative positions. For 20 years he was with SOQUIP (Societe quebecoise d'initiatives petrolieres) where he held the position of chief geologist and afterwards chief geologist for PAREX, a general partnership comprised of Aberford Resources, Denison Mines and Soquip Atlantic. Their mandate was the exploration of oil and gas in the Canadian East Coast. As such, he participated in the discoveries of the Terra-Nova and White Rose large gas fields on the Grand Banks ...

Ashton Offer

Stornoway Diamond Corporation (TSX: SWY) announces that it has taken up and accepted for payment an additional approximately 2.7 million, or approximately 2.9% of the outstanding, Ashton common shares, under its takeover bid offer for all of the common shares of Ashton Mining of Canada Inc. Stornoway now holds approximately 72 million, or approximately 75.6% of the outstanding, Ashton common shares.

Stornoway has not extended the Ashton offer. As noted in the circular for the Ashton offer, Stornoway intends to take such actions as are necessary, including if necessary calling a special meeting of Ashton shareholders, to effect a compulsory acquisition or subsequent acquisition transaction that will result in Stornoway owning 100% of the Ashton common shares. Stornoway intends to vote the Ashton common shares held by it in favour of any subsequent ...

Arius3D Canada Inc. (www.arius3d.com) has signed an agreement with University College London ("UCL") and the Petrie Museum at UCL to install its Arius3D Foundation System into The Chorley Institute at UCL in London, England.

Arius3D is the exclusive licensee of the colour 3D scanning technology developed by the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) which was recently used by the NRC and the C2RMF of the Musee du Louvre in Paris to complete research on Leonardo da Vinci's portrait of Mona Lisa.

Arius3D's world leading digital archiving solutions for culture and heritage, scientific research, education, industrial processes and forensic science applications will facilitate the UCL team's exploration of new opportunities to apply 3D colour scanning.

Prof. Bernard Buxton, Dr. Stuart Robson and Sally MacDonald, Director UCL Museums and Collections (UCL Petrie Museum), will be working with Arius3D on collaborative projects, including sc...

Manaris Corporation (OTCBB: MANS)(FRANKFURT WKN: 255471) - Please note a correction in the Fourth Quarter Year End financial press release sent yesterday, Tuesday, October 4.

Refer to section two, second paragraph under the heading "Fourth Quarter and Year-End Results" the reference to "Revenues for the three months ended June 30, 2005..." should have read "2006".

Thank you for your understanding.

John Fraser, Manaris Corporation

Manaris Corporation today reported financial results for its fiscal year ended June 30, 2006.

"2006 was without a doubt a year of transformation for Manaris. We emerged from fiscal 2006 with a clear strategy and enhanced focus on our core subsidiaries," said John G. Fraser, President and Chief Executive Officer. "During the year, we exited the professional services business by ceasing operations of Canadian Security Age...

Manaris Corporation (OTCBB: MANS) (FRANKFURT WKN: 255471), today reported financial results for its fiscal year ended June 30, 2006.

"2006 was without a doubt a year of transformation for Manaris. We emerged from fiscal 2006 with a clear strategy and enhanced focus on our core subsidiaries," said John G. Fraser, President and Chief Executive Officer. "During the year, we exited the professional services business by ceasing operations of Canadian Security Agency (CSA) in September 2005 and selling Chartrand Laframboise Inc. (CLI) in February 2006. These transactions also strengthened our balance sheet."

Mr. Fraser continued: "We acquired the manufacturing assets and business of ITF Optical Technologies Inc. (ITF) which provided Avensys, one of Manaris' subsidiaries, with access to ITF's 10,000 square foot clean room. We have already realized economies of sca...

CROWFLIGHT MINERALS INC. (Crowflight, the Company) (TSX VENTURE: CML) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Bernard R. Wilson, FCA, ICD.D to the Crowflight Board of Directors and as Chair of the Company's Audit Committee. Mr Wilson replaces Mr. Paul Carroll as Director and Audit Committee Chair, who chose not to stand for re-election at the Company's recent Annual General Meeting.

Mr. Wilson is a recognized Canadian businessman having served in numerous leadership roles, including Chairman of the Founders Board of the Institute of Corporate Directors; Chairman of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce - the largest business organization in Canada with 175,000 members; Chairman of the Canadian Council for International Business - the organization representing Canadian multinational companies at the OECD in Paris, the WTO in Geneva and the UN in New York; ...