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Reporters playing soccer against MPs a few years ago, including Hill Times alum Mark Burgess, centre. This year the reporters had to cancel because many of them were covering the Ontario provincial elections. The Hill Times file photograph

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BY SHRUTI SHEKAR

June 11, 2018

Liberal MP Robert-Falcon Ouellette was not too impressed when Hill reporters had to cancel a soccer match they were going to play against MPs on June 4. “Little known fact. The House of Commons has a soccer club @FCCommoners. The journalists were supposed to play us tonight in a...

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