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At the 21st Défi OSEntreprendre gala for the Montreal region on April 30th, Végévora won Druide’s Grand Prize for Entrepreneurship, earning $3000 and several services. The winners in each official category also received a copy of Druide’s renowned software, Antidote.

Druide informatique has been affiliated with the Défi...

Druide informatique is pleased to announce the release of Antidote 10 v2 for network installation. Launched last November, Antidote 10 includes more than 120 new features for English and French, including more than 2.5 million translations of words and expressions for its bilingual product. The Antidote 10 v2 update, released today, offers...

Every year, Crime Writers of Canada presents the Arthur Ellis Awards for excellence in Canadian crime writing. André Jacques is one of five finalists in the Best Crime Book in French category for his novel Ces femmes aux yeux cernés. The two previous investigations of Jacques’ character Alexandre...

Mrs. Dardia Joseph was awarded the Grand Prix Antidote de l’éloquence at the final of the Délie ta langue ! public speaking competition at the Cabaret du Lion d’Or last night. This prize, sponsored by Druide informatique, comes with a scholarship of $5000 to recognize the exceptional oratory performance of the...

As part of the Druide Fund for Research in Text Analysis, created through a donation from Druide informatique, the MILA Laboratory has chosen the winner of the 2019 Antidote Scholarship. The lucky recipient of the $20,000 scholarship is Mr. Tristan Deleu, a Ph. D. student under the supervision...

Druide informatique announces that for the next two years it will support the public speaking competition Délie ta langue ! launched by University of Montreal’s Bureau de la valorisation de la langue française et de la Francophonie.

Open to undergraduate students, this tournament aims to promote the use of...

Druide recently published a connectors update to improve the security of Antidote on Windows. Antidote has already invited owners of single-user versions to perform the required update, and now invites owners of multi-user licenses to do the same. Owners of older editions of Antidote, such as Antidote HD...

The shortlist for the Prix littéraire France-Québec was revealed today and Jelly Bean by Virginie Francoeur is among the eight works selected.

Organized by the Fédération France-Québec, the Prix littéraire France-Québec is awarded every year for the best Québec novel. The three finalists will be announced at the Salon du...

The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, an international competition that honours the best food and wine books, revealed its winners by country this week. We are pleased to announce that Treize à Table, a collection edited by Chrystine Brouillet and Geneviève Lefebvre, is the Canadian winner in the “Food...

Druide informatique, celebrating its 25th birthday this year, is launching Antidote 10, a major new edition of its renowned software application. Along with 120 new features in French and English, the corrector now helps to make texts more inclusive and more readable. The dictionaries bring the two languages...