The Wrap: Former doctor sentenced, consecutive sentencing, a night at the races
Plus: a local business owner's near-death experience

Days shy of his 65th birthday, Arcel Bissonnette, a practising doctor for 30 years, was taken out of court in handcuffs Thursday after he was sentenced to 12 years in prison for sexually assaulting seven patients over the course of nearly two decades.

Dean Pritchard reports from the law courts, where five of Bissonnette’s victims watched the sentencing.

Serial killer Jeremy Skibicki received concurrent life sentences with no chance of parole for 25 years for the racially-motivated killings of four Indigenous women in Winnipeg — the same period of parole ineligibility that is given to an adult convicted of a single first-degree murder.

After Wednesday’s sentencing, relatives of Skibicki’s victims said federal law should be changed so judges would be allowed to give consecutive life terms so killers like Skibicki would have no chance of walking out of prison.

Danny Kleinsasser, founder of barbecue catering company Danny’s Whole Hog, knows he could be dead now.

In March, he was struck by a semi-truck at a highway intersection. He managed to get out of his totalled truck before it went up in flames.

Business reporter Aaron Epp talked to Kleinsasser about starting his business, giving back to his community, and how the crash changed his perspective on life and family.

Victory Lane Speedway has been a fixture on Highway 75 just south of Winnipeg for 51 years, drivers from Manitoba, as well as Ontario, Saskatchewan and south of the U.S. border.

Free Press photography intern Nic Adam documents the thrills and mayhem on a hot August night.