Toronto
The country’s largest market, its financial centre, and the place where discretion matters most, because everyone is watching everyone.
The territory
Toronto surveillance is its own discipline: subjects live in concierge condo towers, move by subway and rideshare, and disappear into crowds that would swallow a conventional tail. We work the city on its own terms, foot and transit surveillance, fixed observation, and the patience high-density work demands. A tail that only knows how to follow a car doesn’t last a day here.
Coverage
We work the full Greater Toronto Area: Mississauga, Brampton, Vaughan, Markham, Richmond Hill, Scarborough, North York and Etobicoke. Coverage here means local investigators, not a Toronto office; every case is run from our Hamilton head office and staffed by the people who know this ground. Where a case crosses a border entirely, our network of vetted assets across 90+ countries picks up where provincial licensing has to stop.
Where the evidence lands
Toronto justice got a new centre of gravity in 2023, when the courthouse at 10 Armoury Street consolidated six Ontario Court of Justice criminal courts into the largest courthouse in Ontario. The Superior Court’s criminal and family lists run at 361 University Avenue and its civil lists at 330 University Avenue, with appeals and the Divisional Court at Osgoode Hall. Landlord and tenant files run through the Landlord and Tenant Board, mostly by videoconference. Different rooms, one discipline: evidence documented lawfully, timestamped, and packaged so counsel can put it in front of any of them, the standard behind everything on our counsel desk.
What the files look like
Density writes the caseload. Condo towers generate the occupancy work: unauthorized sublets and short-term rentals, sharpened by a city bylaw that confines short-term rentals to an operator’s registered principal residence, which can make an investment unit running as an Airbnb a tenancy breach and a municipal one at the same time. We build those files the way our sublet guide describes, against the 60-day clock it explains. The financial core generates the counsel-driven work: corporate due diligence, hidden-asset files, and litigation support instructed by firms that need a properly briefed investigator. All of it runs on the surveillance discipline the territory section describes: foot, transit, and fixed observation, done patiently.
Toronto questions
Do you have investigators in Toronto?
Yes: investigators who know this ground and work it regularly, with case management run from our Hamilton head office. We say that plainly because "local office" theatre is common in this industry; what matters operationally is who shows up and who manages the file, and both are ours.
Can you run surveillance in a Toronto condo building?
From lawful vantage points, yes, and that boundary is exactly what makes the evidence usable. We document what is observable from public space: entrances, street level, comings and goings. We do not enter secured buildings under pretext or record where people have a reasonable expectation of privacy, because evidence gathered that way poisons the file it was meant to build.
How much does a private investigator cost in Toronto?
Hourly, per investigator, with mileage and travel itemized and a written scope agreed first, the same structure we bill everywhere. Toronto work often runs on foot and transit rather than vehicles, which changes the shape of the hours more than the rate. Our cost guide has the full picture.
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