Ernst & Young Global Ltd. (EY) is worldwide accounting firm and professional service network which is the product of the 1989 merger between two large accounting firms: Ernst & Whinney and Arthur Young & Co.. EY resulted from several mergers of ancestor firms over the last century and a half, the oldest of which was founded in 1849, in England, as Harding & Pullein. That same year, this firm was joined by an accountant named Frederick Whinney, who, a decade later, became a partner. After his son joined the firm, it was later renamed Whinney, Smith & Whinney, in 1894. In 1903, the firm Ernst & Ernst was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, by Alwin C. Ernst, and his brother, Theodore Ernst. In 1906, Arthur Young & Co. was set up by a Scotsman accountant, Arthur Young, in Chicago. Starting in 1924, these two American firms became allied with prominent British firms; Young with Broads Paterson & Co.; and Ernst with the aforementioned Whinney Smith & Whinney. The latter of these two mergers spawned Anglo-American partnership Ernst & Whinney in 1979, then the fourth largest accountancy firm in the world. A decade later, in 1989, Ernst & Whinney merged with the fifth largest firm globally at the time, Arthur Young & Co., to create Ernst & Young. The Ernst & Young merger created a firm with 6,100 partners and two chief executive officers, Ray Groves from Ernst & Whinney and William Gladstone from Arthur Young. In one of its first business decisions following the merger, Ernst & Young began to move into computer-aided software engineering. This step reflected Ernst & Young's diversification into management systems and strategic planning services for businesses. The process innovation services were sold worldwide, primarily to the insurance and banking industries. he 1990s, it was steeped in the controversy surrounding the crisis of the savings and loan industry. Ernst & Young's audits of 23 failed savings and loans were investigated by the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) under a subpoena issued in June 1991. Several judgments were rendered against Ernst & Young in connection with the investigation. In July 1992, for instance, the firm paid a fine of $1.66 million to settle accusations that it helped Charles H. Keating, Jr., deceive the federal government about the health of his failing S&L. Moreover, former Ernst & Young partner Jack D. Atchison's license was suspended for four years by the accounting board of Arizona. He was accused of helping persuade five U.S. senators to intervene with federal regulators on Keating's behalf. In connection with this settlement, Ernst & Young paid $63 million to settle charges of wrongdoing in the Keating affair. Ernst & Young did not admit guilt, however, and the claim was paid largely by insurance. In total, some $204 million in fines were paid in this civil suit. In another settlement, Ernst & Young paid $400 million to the federal government in compliance with a federal ruling against the company. To eliminate overlap created by the merger and to reduce its payroll expenses, the firm cut its staff in 1991 and eliminated many partner positions. Although revenues had fallen slightly in the late 1980s, by the early 1990s revenues were modestly but steadily rising. Ernst & Young's costly legal battles encouraged several changes in the mid-1990s. First, the firm hired a new general legal counsel, Kathryn Oberly, who reputedly made keeping costs down a higher priority than battling on principle. Second, the firm stepped up its expansion into consulting, an area much less fraught with legal responsibilities and their concomitant lawsuits than auditing. In addition to increasing its consulting in risk management, the company moved into information software products. Ernst & Young also entered new business areas in the mid-1990s by developing alliances and by acquiring smaller companies. In 1996 the firm forged an alliance with Tata Consulting, headquartered in India. The same year, its alliance with ISD/Shaw gave the firm an entree into banking industry consulting. The firm moved into the petroleum and petrochemical consulting business in 1996 when it purchased Wright Kellen & Co. Ernst & Young created a new subsidiary with the Houston-based company, which they named Ernst & Young Wright Killen. In 1997 Ernst & Young forged an agreement to merge with KPMG International, another Big Six accounting firm, but abandoned the merger plans in 1998. In 2002, Ernst & Young serviced a large chunk of the clients previously working with Arthur Andersen after their downfall in connection with the Enron scandal. In 2010, Ernst & Young acquired Terco, the Brazilian member firm of Grant Thornton. Ernst & Young announced that it had adopted EY as its global brand name on July 1, 2013. Also in 2013, the Pope of the Roman Catholic church hired EY to help review Vatican City State's finances and help "verify and consult" the institution's administration, including the museums, post office and tax-free department store.[30] EY expanded further and acquired all of KPMG Denmark's operations. In 2014, EY acquired global strategy consulting firm The Parthenon Group. In 2015, EY opened its first global Security Operations Centre in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala in India, and coincidentally invested $20 million over 5 years to combat the increasing threat of cybercrimes. EY is currently headquartered in New York City, NY.

Extreme Explorations is a film production company, content producer, travel and event company founded by Peter Chrzanowski in 1982. Peter Chrzanowski founded the company with friends from Simon Fraser University in 1982, originally making mountaineering and extreme skiing films before moving into the documentary genre to focus on mountain culture and ethnographic films. With the rise of the internet, Extreme Explorations moved into new media and is expanding into creating festivals and events. Publications and press coverage include Powder Magazine, Ski Canada, SKIING, Vancouver Magazine, Outside Magazine, Beautiful British Colombia Magazine, Minolta Mirror, Vancouver Province, The Sun, and many more. Extreme Explorations' films have been aired on many national and international networks such as CBC, France +, Arts & Entertainment, Discovery, and others.

Fabco Leasing is a company from Vancouver.

Fabulous George & The Zodiacs is a blues rock band from Winnipeg, MB. The band members include Don Jordan, Mike Elliott, Bill Merritt, and Dennis Riley. The band began touring the prairie provinces of Canada in the 1970s, and have played many charitable shows, including for the Kelty Patrick Dennehy Foundation in Whistler in the 2000s.

The Federation of Mountain Clubs of British Columbia (FMCBC) is a province-wide federation of over 50 outdoor and mountain clubs. Founded in 1962, the FMCBC aims to promote self-propelled activities, such as hiking, mountaineering, trail running, snowshoeing, and backcountry skiing through leadership, advocacy, and education. Containing over 35 outdoor and mountain clubs in BC, the FMCBC is a democratic, grassroots organization dedicated to protecting and maintaining access to quality non-motorized backcountry recreation in British Columbia’s mountains and wilderness areas. Membership in the FMCBC is open to any club or individual who supports their vision, mission, and purpose and includes benefits such as a subscription to a semi-annual newsletter (Cloudburst), monthly updates through FMCBC E-News, access to Third-Party Liability insurance, and eligibility to apply for project funding through their Member Club Grant Program which supports trail building and upgrading initiatives. The FMCBC is based in Victoria, BC.

The Financial Post was an English Canadian business newspaper, which published from 1907 to 1998. The Financial Post started publication in 1907 by John Bayne Maclean. It was a weekly publication, and one of the core assets of Maclean's media business, which eventually became Maclean-Hunter. The paper was purchased by Sun Media in 1987, and expanded into a daily tabloid on February 1, 1988. It added a home delivery newspaper in 1990, with a reformatted Financial Post Magazine following shortly after. In 1998, Sun Media sold the Financial Post to Hollinger, whose CEO, Conrad Black, had been seeking a way to establish a national newspaper. In 1998, the publication was folded into the new National Post, although the name Financial Post has been retained as the banner for that paper's business section and also lives on in the Post's monthly business magazine, Financial Post Business. The Financial Post, like the National Post, is based in Toronto, ON.