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The fifteenth Druide Classic annual benefit golf tournament and the campaign that followed helped raise the total amount donated to the foundation to over $800,000.

To celebrate 30 years of Antidote, Druide will match each donation made online until June 30, 2026, up to a maximum of $30,000.

Jean-François Aubé won the 2026 Antidote Cup for his exemplary use of French while performing in the Théâtre de la LNI’s Coupe Charade improv matches.

Myo Devices was awarded the Druide Grand Prize for Business Creation, valued at over $10,000, to help grow its business. Druide also presented the six official category winners with a copy of Antidote Pro — Bilingual.

To celebrate the Month of La Francophonie, seven institutions will participate in the Dictée Antidote des cégeps, an initiative launched by Druide and presented by Cégep de Rosemont. The Dictée will then be posted on Antidote’s Blog, with a detailed answer sheet.

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

The master’s student in remedial education receives $25,000 for her work with the Research Chair for Foundation Learning in Literacy, established through a $1 million donation made to UQAM by Druide informatique.

Radio-Canada has invited Marc-André Gaudry, a lexicographer at Druide informatique, to participate in its Comité de terminologie, whose mission includes coming up with French counterparts to new terms and sharing the fruits of its labour. Many neologisms coined by the committee already appear in Antidote’s dictionaries.

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Rachel Stone, one of Druide informatique’s English Lexicographers, recently joined the Dictionary Society of North America’s Executive Board for a four-year term. The Society’s mission is to “bring together people interested in dictionary making, study, collection, and use.” Headquartered in North America, it has over 400 members from 40 different...

Educational institutions can now choose between two site licenses. These solutions are exclusive to schools and priced favourably according to the number of employees, no matter how many students or devices there are.