-- ONTARIO -- The province’s auditor general found special diet payments, which give chronically ill welfare recipients extra cash to eat healthier, ballooned 1,200% in a six-year period.**********
In a 2009 report, AG Jim McCarter said the welfare supplements went to $67 million in 2009 from only $5 million in 2003.
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There, they found the accused man's mother living in a non-insulated garage of the home. She was in medical distress and taken to hospital by paramedics. Police says she is currently in "life-threatening condition."
They say the woman was not being provided with adequate food. While a portable toilet had been provided to her, the conditions in the garage were said to be terrible.
Police say the woman is the mother of the man charged. They allege she was moved into the non-insulated garage of the house by her son and daughter-in-law in early November, 2010.