Words Don’t Stop Bullets: Why Cricket Canada Needs Police Action
Violent extortion, threats, houses sprayed with bullets and alleged match-fixing at the World Cup of Cricket linked to sports gambling. Words don’t stop bullets. Bits of paper don’t stop gangsters from killing people. What Canadian cricket is facing is not a “sports crime”. It is not doping or cheating but an alleged, systemic campaign of criminal extortion committed by violent thugs. In April of this year, the journalists at my former Canadian television program the fifth estate (akin to 60 Minutes or Panorama in...