Book Excerpt
Killing the Golden Goose
“He loses his chips and stalks around like a caged tiger for a minute and then rushes out of the casino.”In 2010, while Canada celebrated the Winter Olympics in Vancouver and the city was heralded as a global model of prosperity and livability—a small group of Gaming Policy and Enforcement Branch (GPEB) and RCMP investigators were in a different mood. The way Calvin Chrustie saw it, Vancouver was sort of like one of those exotically coloured tropical fish. On the surface, it’s beautiful. But the flesh is toxic.