Mitchell Consky is a Toronto- based journalist. His work has been published in the Globe and Mail, CTV News and other international news outlets. Mitch has written and published a book entitled Home Safe: A Memoir Of End-of-life Care During Covid-19. This work is centered around his father, Harvey Consky, a Toronto based lawyer and beloved family man. Through his book, Mitch helped preserve his father’s legacy in writing. A portion of Mitch’s author royalties will be donated to cancer research at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.

In this episode, Mitch tells us about who his father Harvey was as a person and how his experience with cancer impacted their whole family. Mitch also shares the ups and downs, the joys and the struggles, of providing palliative care for his father at home during the pandemic.

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