THE Insurance Corporation of British Columbia boasts it will soon be able to offer language assistance for non-English speaking customers in 170 languages.
ICBC announced last week that by the fall of 2012, all 20 of its provincial driver licensing offices, including the North Shore's location at 125 East 13th St., will be set up with a telephone-based translation service covering everything from Albanian to Yoruba.
In a press release, Finance Minister Kevin Falcon said the decision to increase translation services was made to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse population.
According to 2006 census data, the most recent available, 30 per cent of the City of North Vancouver's residents have a mother tongue other than English or French.
