The Supreme Court of Canada does not often hear sentence appeals.  They recently released the decision in R. v. Lacasse, 2015 SCC 64, an impaired causing death case in which they re-instated a 6 1/2 year jail sentence (see February 7, 2016 blog entry). This year they will hear an appeal of a "refusal to provide a breath sample after having caused a collision resulting in death" case, R. v. Suter, 2016 ABCA 235 (see September 18, 2016 blog entry). In that case the Alberta Court of Appeal increased the sentence from 4 months to 26 months imprisonment. Leave to appeal was granted on January 12, 2017 and some of the commentary can be found here.