News from OCCI January 30, 2018 - OCCI and AILIA joined forces to present to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration - read the published briefing
- Honouring the memory of Juan Rodriguez
- Upcoming Interpreter PD Workshops
- Other recent interpreting news
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OCCI and AILIA’s Joint Submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration - Addressing the need for standardization, regulation, and professionalization of interpreting January 10, 2018
As a follow up to the November 30, 2017 presentation by Lola Bendana to the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration concerning resettlement issues related to Yezidi women and girls, the Ontario Council on Community Interpreting (OCCI) and the Language Industry Association of Canada (AILIA) are hereby pleased to present this briefing on resettlement issues and the importance of professional interpretation for the proper settlement of immigrants such as the case of Yezidi women and girls.
Interpreters working in sensitive and complex settings such as health care, legal, immigration, social services and settlement services, are currently not regulated in Canada. The absence of regulation implicates a serious risk to users of interpretation services and to the public.
Read the full briefing here. OCCI and AILIA were invited to speak as part of a larger study on the resettlement issues related to Yezidi women and girls. To read more on the various briefings presented, click here. |
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Honouring Juan Rodriguez The OCCI sends its condolences to the family of Mr. Juan Rodriguez, Spanish interpreter and advocate of the interpreting profession, who recently passed away. To read the obituary, please see here. |
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Upcoming Interpreter Workshops and PD Events (for full details and links to register, go the PD & Events page) Health Care Interpreting Workshop Offered by Seneca College 2 sessions, Saturdays, February 24th and March 3rd, 2018 North York, Ontario Spanish/English Interpretation Workshop Offered by Seneca College 4 sessions, Saturdays, February 24th, March 3rd, 10th, and 17th, 2018 North York, Ontario Connecting Legal Services to Interpretation Offered by ONLIS On-line course The OCCI lists events related to community interpreting and events that have been recognized as eligible for ACI Professional Development hours. For the full listing of upcoming and past events see the Events & PD page. |
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Just How Great Is “Instant Interpreting?” Cross-Cultural Communications shares a report that looks at the effectiveness of earpieces that promise to provide real-time interpreting. "Whether it’s the IBM Watson version, other U.S. versions or those from Germany, Australia, China, Korea or even Google, the bottom line is that this technology has a long way to go before it will be accurate." Click here to read more. |
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World media struggle to translate Trump’s Africa insult “We have dozens of language services at the BBC which today are all discussing the right way to translate into their own language the word ‘s***hole’ for their millions of listeners,” Paul Danahar, the editor of the BBC’s North America bureau, tweeted Friday. Read the article here. |
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The list of OCCI Accredited Community Interpreters continues to grow To see the list of ACIs and the range of languages represented, click here, or follow the link at the top of every page at occi.ca. |
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The OCCI would like the acknowledge the generous support of our Gold and Silver sponsors. For a full list of current sponsors and links to their websites, please see our home page. |
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