R v Takpanie

canada, canadian, case law, court opinion, canlii, nuca, 2026nuca2, 2026 nuca 2 (canlii), 2026, nuca, 2, (canlii), 08-24-018-cas, 2026, criminal and statutory offences, sentencing, proportionality, whether the sentencing judge erred in applying proportionality to a serious domestic violence offence, consideration of denunciation and deterrence in nunavut communities, aggravating and mitigating factors weighed, r v lacasse, paras 39, 41, 44, standard of review applied, sentence not demonstrably unfit, appeal dismissed, indigenous peoples, sentencing, gladue, whether gladue factors properly considered in assessing moral blameworthiness, pre, sentence report and submissions acknowledged, reference to indigenous victim and intimate partner violence addressed, gladue factors taken into account alongside aggravating factors, no error in principle established, appeal dismissed, procedure, sentencing, procedural fairness, did reliance on an undisclosed letter breach the right to be heard and amount to an error in principle?, letter introduced without prior disclosure to counsel, use confined to illustrating denunciation’s community impact, no effect on sentence established, appellate intervention not warranted, appeal dismissed, criminal and statutory offences, sentencing, criminal record, did an erroneous entry in the criminal record affect the sentence imposed?, mistaken reference to prior sentence noted, one entry among many aggravating convictions, no impact on overall fitness of sentence, not an error in principle, appeal dismissed