An 87-year-old woman who lives on a government pension is one of several new victims of a large-scale scam, that has now hit at least one seniors' home in B.C.

A Surrey area MLA has started his month-long odyssey into poverty by exchanging his pay cheque for a welfare cheque.

No charges will be laid in connection with the death of a teen who was stabbed while aboard a transit bus in Surrey, B.C., last October, authorities have announced.