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[Rob Bayne], who worked on the Bayne family farm in Shropshire, was a domestic dog signed up to fight following an appeal from the War Office in 1942. Able seaman Simon was the ship's cat on the Royal Navy frigate HMS Amethyst. He won a PDSA (People's Dispensary for Sick Animals) Dickin medal - the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross - and even received hundreds of letters of fan mail. The Amethyst spent three months caught in the Yangtze River during the civil war between Mao Tse-Tung's Communists and the Nationalists under Chiang Kaishek in 1949. DOG FIGHTER: Rob Bayne the paratrooper receives his bravery medal' SEAMAN SIMON: The Amethyst's cat kept up morale and rid the ship of rodents

[Rob Bayne], who worked on the Bayne family farm in Shropshire, was a domestic dog signed up to fight following an appeal from the War Office in 1942. Able seaman Simon was the ship's cat on the Royal Navy frigate HMS Amethyst. He won a PDSA (People's Dispensary for Sick Animals) Dickin medal - the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross - and even received hundreds of letters of fan mail. The Amethyst spent three months caught in the Yangtze River during the civil war between Mao Tse-Tung's Communists and the Nationalists under Chiang Kaishek in 1949. DOG FIGHTER: Rob Bayne the paratrooper receives his bravery medal' SEAMAN SIMON: The Amethyst's cat kept up morale and rid the ship of rodents

Employers and managers who are verbally abusive to their employees, or belittle and demean them, had better take note. Like sexual harassment, which has long been recognized as a workplace problem, the hostile work environment is becoming a commonplace complaint -- and one that is going to hit the bottom line. A hostile work environment, she says, is \"an issue all employers are facing these days. It's very subjective. What might be hostile for some employees might not be for others. It can take many forms. It can be racial slurs. Distribution of pornography or off-colour sexual jokes or innuendo or superiors picking on employees.\" Hostile work environments can be costly in other ways, too. A U.S. study of workplace lawsuits between 1996 to 2002 found the median for damage awards in hostile environment cases was $150,008.

At the end of the year, Ontario employers will no longer be able to use mandatory retirement as an excuse to get rid of the deadwood among employees. That is because the Province is scrapping mandatory retirement -- making it illegal for employers to force out workers at the age of 65. Mort Mitchnik, a lawyer at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, in Toronto, says mandatory retirement provided a \"very gentle, non-denigrating way to let people go\" after their skills declined. \"It allowed them to walk out at 65 with their head held high; no fuss, no muss.\" Instead of firing an employee near retirement, whose declining skills make them a balance sheet liability, employers tend to ride it out. \"You don't have that latitude any longer,\" says Mr. Mitchnik, a former adjudicator and a vice-chairman of the Ontario Labour Relations Board. The change, \"puts the burden on management to manage performance.\"

The costs to businesses can come about in three ways. First, \"it is possible for a hostile work environment case to become a human rights case,\" says Rob Bayne, a partner at Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti, a labour and employment law firm in Toronto. Second, Elizabeth Forster, a partner in the employment and labour law department at Blaney McMurtry in Toronto, says employers can be sued for constructive dismissal if \"an employee alleges the work environment is so intolerable that it's a fundamental breach of the employment contract.\" Hostile work environments can be costly in other ways, too. A U.S. study of workplace lawsuits between 1996 and 2002 found the median for damage awards in hostile environment cases was $150,008.

This article presents five things the author wish he'd learned earlier in his marketing career: 1. Work for someone you admire. 2. Find the right ladder to climb. 3. Have a point of view. 4. Be a one-hit wonder. 5. It's a people business.

It was a very different tone in an Ottawa courtroom today as the prime minister's former chief of staff testified at the [Mike Duffy] trial for a second day. Today it was the defence's turn with [Nigel Wright]. The exchanges were sometimes testy as Duffy's lawyer accused Wright of helping to engineer \"a deliberately deceptive scenario\" to make Canadians believe Duffy had paid back his expenses--a scenario he suggested that the Prime Minister knew about and approved. Senior Correspondent Terry Milewski was at the courthouse again today. Terry? In fact, [Stephen Harper] was told by Wright that Duffy's expenses might indeed be justified but because they looked bad, Wright said the government was going to be happy if people thought that Duffy had repaid. Bayne challenged him: \"But he hadn't repaid--you had paid... The object was to inflict on Duffy and the Canadian public a deceptive scenario...the government would be happy if people...were deceived into thinking Duffy had repaid... Your Tory voter base, that's worried about probity, they weren't gonna like this. ... This was political damage control--this wasn't doing a good deed.\" Wright replied: \"I was happy if people thought he repaid ... I didn't think it was meaningfully different that I contributed. All of which provided more ammunition for the opposition. Well, he did. Duffy is accused among other things of making bogus claims for a trip to Vancouver allegedly for pre-budget consultations. And yesterday Nigel Wright testified that he didn't think Duffy had anything to do with those consultations. But today [Don Bayne] produced, (a), Duffy's report on those talks and, (b), Nigel Wright's own reply thanking Duffy for his input. [PETER MANSBRIDGE]?

Despite finishing eighth -- ahead of only the Washington Totems, who are ineligible for post-season play due to B.C. Amateur Hockey regulations -- the Bucks are in a new race with the regular season champion Delta Icehawks. The aim is to extend the year as long as possible, with league powerhouse Delta the first obstacle. In six meetings, the Bucks came away with one win, back in September. The series continues tomorrow (7:30 p.m.) at the PoCo Rec Centre. Game Three goes Saturday, also in PoCo. Goalies Rob Irwin and Sam Huston need to be as diligent as Woodward and Bernstein in out-scooping the opposition. Irwin, 17, showed his best side Saturday when he turned back 47 Abbotsford shots. He is still searching for his first win in a Bucks uniform. [Bayne Koen] is leaning towards rotating the goalies until one steps up and steals a game.

\"[Rob Irwin] came highly recommended. We've needed to solidify that position and get Hughie some help. They'll go one and one and we'll ride the hot hand into the playoffs,\" [Bayne Koen] said. The healthy return of Kori Cruickshank and Derek Engelson, and impending good health for Harpreet Kalkut and Sean Postle should bolster the defensive backline. Koen said the next three weeks will be treated like training camp. Photo: Dave Dormer, Maple Ridge Times / STAKING OUT SOME ICE: Port Coquitlam's Derrick Serraglio protects the puck during last week's PIJHL All-Star game. Serraglio played on the North division, which lost 8-6 to the South. Bucks captain Jason Boyd was named the North's Player of the Game.