STRAITJACKET TOUR 2026
This story was never meant to stay on the page.
Over the coming months, I’ll be taking the conversations behind The Other Side of the Straitjacket across Canada and the United Kingdom through live events, podcasts, media appearances, bookstores, libraries, and conferences.
New dates and appearances will be added as they are confirmed.
If you’d like to bring this conversation to your organization, bookstore, library, book club, podcast, or event, I’d love to connect.
Upcoming Events
MAiD at Ten: Lessons from Canada’s First Decade
MAiD at Ten: Lessons from Canada’s First Decade is a two-day conference examining the first decade of Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada. The program brings together researchers, clinicians, ethicists, advocates, and people with lived experience to explore MAiD policy, practice, ethics, and oversight.
Alicia will speak Saturday, October 31 at 2:00 p.m. Mountain Time (Alberta) / 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time.
Presentation:
Stress-testing Canada’s MAiD oversight architecture: Lessons from one of Canada’s most extensively reviewed and contested MAiD deaths
Drawing on the death of her mother, Donna Duncan, and the investigations and regulatory processes that followed, Alicia will examine what happens when a MAiD death raises questions across multiple parts of the healthcare, regulatory, and legal system, and what her mother’s case reveals about accountability and oversight within Canada’s MAiD framework.
Book Signing
Join Alicia Duncan at Coles - Sevenoaks Shopping Centre in Abbotsford for a pop-up book signing celebrating the release of her debut memoir.
Meet the author, pick up a signed copy, and discover the true story behind Canada's first police-investigated MAiD death. This powerful memoir has been featured on CBC's The Fifth Estate and in the BBC documentary Better Off Dead?
In the Media
The Walrus
My Mom’s MAID Death Was the First to Be Investigated by Police | She was approved despite mental health concerns. I wasn’t convinced it was the right call.
Books By Women
The Book My Mother Was Supposed to Write | My mother was no longer the nurse hoping to tell a patient’s story. She had become the patient whose story I was trying to piece together.
Daily Mail
My mum wasn't terminally ill - she needed help | We had 48 hours to stop Canada's assisted-dying system but failed and days later she was given a lethal injection.
Podcasts
A Little Bit Culty
In this episode, we’re joined by Alicia Duncan for a conversation that takes ALBC somewhere new: not a traditional cult, but a deeply troubling story about coercion, undue influence, narrative control, and institutional power. Alicia shares what happened after her mother entered Canada’s MAID—Medical Assistance in Dying—program, and how a family already navigating COVID, concussion symptoms, mental-health struggles, caregiver burnout, and a seriously broken healthcare system ended up facing an unimaginable loss.
Listen → Spotify | Apple Podcasts
Watch → YouTube
The Kelsi Sheren Perspective
Alicia Duncan returns to the show with something no other family in Canada has been able to make public: the full findings from her mother Donna's file — and what they confirm about testimony given to the Senate of Canada by Dr. Joel Zivot. We also break down the CTV segment that targeted this show, who funded it, what the “majority of Canadians” poll actually sampled, and a new case on Vancouver Island being discussed publicly here for the first time.
Listen → Spotify | Apple Podcasts
Watch → YouTube
Lament of Hope
Alicia Duncan lost her mom, Donna, in the fall of 2021 when she chose to be euthanized four hours after being released from a psychiatric ward due to a suicide attempt. Alicia sat down with me to share her mother's end-of-life story and how she processed Donna's passing.
Listen → Spotify | Apple Podcasts
Watch → YouTube