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Dunord Awarded the Druide Grand Prize for Business Creation

Dunord takes home the Druide Grand Prize for Business Creation from the Montréal region’s 25th OSEntreprendre Challenge. Winners in all official categories were also presented with a copy of Antidote.

Antidote Adds OQLF’s New French Term Recommendations

With the latest free update of Antidote, 11v4, its corrector and dictionaries will now feature OQLF’s recommended French-language equivalents for emerging terms borrowed from English and other languages.

Free Updates for the Entire Antidote Product Line

Antidote adds more linguistic content and improved analyzers. The entire product line gets free updates that give users access to new features.

Alain Beaulieu’s Le refuge named a finalist for the 2023 Prix France-Québec

Friday morning, the finalists were announced for the 2023 Prix France-Québec literary award, and Alain Beaulieu’s Le refuge is among them! The shortlist of three titles was selected by professionals from the publishing industry in both France and Quebec.
Over the coming months, hundreds of bookworms belonging to...

Arian Hosseini Is Awarded the Seventh Antidote Scholarship in Natural Language Processing

Totaling $20,000, the Antidote Scholarship in NLP is awarded from the Druide Fund for Research in Text Analysis, created through a donation from Druide informatique to the Université de Montréal.

Flavie Joane Nikebie Wins the Grand Prix Antidote de l’Éloquence

The award, along with a scholarship of $5000, was presented during the final of the public speaking competition Délie ta langue!, recognizing Ms. Nikebie’s exceptional performance. All finalists from 11 universities also received an Antidote+ subscription.

Johanne Pothier: Finalist in the Arts Excellence Awards for her Novel Mulos

Culture Mauricie has announced the finalists for the twenty-fourth Arts Excellence awards. We are pleased to announce that Johanne Pothier is among those selected for the Création en littérature category for her novel Mulos!
The winners for each category will be announced on March 29 2022.
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Two of Druide’s Books Selected by Communication-Jeunesse

Communication-Jeunesse (CJ) has unveiled its spring 2023 selection of books entitled CJ, qu’est-ce qu’on lit?. We have learned that two of our titles made the list: Les vilaines comptines de tante Vermine by Lili Chartrand and Camille Pomerlo as well as Tombés dans… l’aventure! by Julie Rivard...

Tombés dans… la frousse! Selected for the TD Summer Reading Club 2023

The TD Summer Reading Club unveiled its Top Recommended Reads for its next session. We were very pleased to learn that Tombés dans… la frousse! by Julie Rivard and Rémy Simard made the list!
Starting in mid-June, thousands of young people across the country will be able to...

Pétronille inc. Selected by Communication-Jeunesse

Communication-Jeunesse (CJ) has just unveiled its winter reading list, CJ, qu’est-ce qu’on lit ? (What are we reading?) for 2022. We were pleased to learn that the list includes Pétronille inc. Tome 5 — Sirènes écoresponsables written by Annie Bacon and illustrated by Boum. CJ’s mission is to...