Toronto is one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the world, with about half of its residents born outside Canada.
The Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada processes a large volume of refugee hearings in the city through its Refugee Protection Division and Refugee Appeal Division, requiring trauma-informed interpreters across a vast range of languages including Somali, Tigrinya, Amharic, Dari, and Pashto, often alongside certified translations for immigration filings.
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Court of Appeal for Ontario, and the Federal Court of Canada handle civil, criminal, and immigration-review matters that call for accredited court interpreters, while Bay Street and the financial district run Big Five bank investor meetings, Ontario Securities Commission proceedings, TSX-listed AGMs, and cross-border M&A, frequently paired with financial translation of the underlying filings, under strict confidentiality.
The University Health Network, Sunnybrook, SickKids, and Mount Sinai Hospital add deep medical demand, the Metro Toronto Convention Centre hosts logistics, innovation, and finance congresses, and the GTA tech corridor across Mississauga, Markham, and the Waterloo region drives technology investor meetings.
BeTranslated provides simultaneous interpreting in ISO-compliant booths for conferences and congresses, consecutive interpreting for IRB refugee hearings, Ontario court proceedings, and depositions, whispered (chuchotage) interpreting for Bay Street boardrooms and one-to-one settings, and escort interpreting for delegations across the GTA.
For hybrid and online programs we run remote simultaneous interpreting, video remote interpreting, and over-the-phone interpreting on Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Webex.
Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish, Tagalog, Punjabi, Tamil, and Hindi are our most frequently requested pairs, with Korean and the city's wider refugee-determination languages also covered, and we field interpreters from the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General accredited list for Superior Court, Court of Appeal, and Federal Court assignments, with certified legal translation for filings and exhibits.