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Druide informatique announces the release of Antidote 10 v4, the third free update for the 10th edition. This new version enriches Antidote’s analyzers and dictionaries with 1400 new words and expressions in English and French. In particular, Antidote now includes vocabulary relating to COVID-19 in both languages with terms such as social...

At the award ceremony for the Saison de la Coupe Charade, held via Facebook and YouTube due to the pandemic, LeLouis Courchesne was awarded the Antidote Cup for his performances in the 2020 season. The Antidote Cup, sponsored by Druide informatique, is awarded to participants for the quality...

Druide informatique is responding to requests for help from its multi-user clients by offering them Antidote’s cloud edition, whose release was planned for later this year, free of charge. Having received numerous requests from clients who are temporarily unable to access Antidote 10 due to the isolation measures, Druide...

Communication-Jeunesse (CJ) has unveiled its semi-annual selection of youth books for spring 2020.

We are pleased to announce that Pétronille inc., Tome 1 — Bave de crapaud bio by Annie Bacon with illustrations by Boum has been chosen by the selection committee for the “6- to 8-year-old” category.

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The Gourmand Awards, an international competition that honours the best food and drink books from around the world, revealed its winners by country this week. We are pleased to announce that Le goût de la bière fermière, by Martin Thibault in collaboration with David Lévesque Gendron, was...

Bave de crapaud bio, the first volume in the Pétronille inc. series written by Annie Bacon and illustrated by Boum, is a finalist for the 2021 Hackmatack – Children’s Choice Book Award in the “French Fiction” category. The Hackmatack Award is a program designed to promote the...

Asterix, whose adventures have so coloured Druide’s journey and that of our own magic potion, Antidote, has lost his last surviving parent, the great Albert Uderzo. The Druids wish to pay tribute to this towering figure of comic book art. We encourage you to reread Uderzo’s works to...

Druide announces the release of Antidote 10 v3, a free update for Antidote 10 that boasts a host of improvements, including new words, corrections and integrations. More than 1500 words and expressions such as pegan and upcycle have been added in English. Meanwhile, 5300 words such as animoji...

Just in time for Christmas, 1036 schools will be receiving a free license allowing them to install Antidote, Druide informatique’s flagship writing assistance software, on ten computers. Druide made the announcement as part of the GRICS’s annual conference, a network that brings together all of Quebec’s school boards...

On October 5, the Société du roman policier de Saint-Pacôme (SRPSP) held its 18th gala. André Jacques’ novel Ces femmes aux yeux cernés earned him the most prestigious prize of the evening, the Prix Saint-Pacôme, which is awarded to the best detective novel from a Quebec author published in...