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MONTREAL — Former Montreal mayor and federal cabinet minister Denis Coderre says he's going on tour ahead of a possible run for the leadership of the Quebec Liberal party.

The plane that crashed Tuesday near Fort Smith, N.W.T. was on its way to Rio Tinto's Diavik Diamond Mine. The mine is one of four operating diamond mines in Canada.

OTTAWA — The federal commission of inquiry into foreign interference is looking to examine alleged meddling by India in the last two general elections.

Montreal police say a 75-year-old woman has died after she was hit by a snowplow Tuesday morning. The incident occurred at around 10:45 a.m.

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today...

OTTAWA — Most Canadians don't think the quality of health care in their province is likely to improve, a new survey suggests, despite new federal health accords with several provinces designed to quell the health-care crisis unfolding across Canada.

FORT SMITH, N.W.T. — Rescuers parachuted into the scene of a deadly plane crash near a remote community in Canada's North on Tuesday. The Transportation Safety Board said the British Aerospace Jetstream passenger plane went down near Fort Smith, N.W.

EDMONTON — The police chief of Alberta's capital says a heavily armed man allegedly acted alone Tuesday when he entered city hall, fired shots and threw a Molotov cocktail from the building's second floor.

BURNABY, B.C.

TERRACE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — A passenger on a helicopter that crashed north of Terrace, B.C., on Monday used a guest radio to notify the heli-skiing firm of the accident, the company's president says.