Blackmail‽

Welcome back to Canadian Criminal Law 101, class. Today we're going to talk about blackmail - which is really just a flavour of "extortion". Once again, I remind you that I am not a lawyer and that I learned this stuff about an hour before writing about it, so there may be some errors here (which is why I link to things written by actual lawyers, to corroborate what I am telling you). If you are a…