{"id":29804,"date":"2025-06-04T23:50:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T23:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=29804"},"modified":"2025-06-05T00:08:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T00:08:32","slug":"snowballs-chance-in-hell-uptrends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=29804","title":{"rendered":"Hell freezing over ? &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Mark-Danielle-Oilers-fans.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Mark-Danielle-Oilers-fans.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Mark-Danielle-Oilers-fans-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Mark-Danielle-Oilers-fans-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-5b4de69fe8d41adab36f9c0818919352\" style=\"color:#085fb1\">EDMONTON &#8212; Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she has invited Prime Minister Mark Carney to watch an Edmonton Oilers Stanley Cup Final game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-983ce0aa5fb7bf0d10deeccfe712dd56\" style=\"color:#085fb1\">Smith says she&#8217;s waiting to see if Carney will join her for Game 5, which could take place next weekend ahead of the G7 conference in Kananaskis, Alberta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-9b349d9c2441b688640d685fcc7f36c8\" style=\"color:#085fb1\">Carney, who grew up in Edmonton, made his allegiance to the home team clear when he stopped at Rogers Place to skate with the team in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-f5763cc5d9d3a0b9a6ac4f7215518fdb\" style=\"color:#085fb1\">Smith says she&#8217;s pleased to see that Canada has a prime minister &#8220;who knows what team to root for.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0f4e55c74efb0bbc96e22caffc1148d6\" style=\"color:#cc150c\"><em>From a report by The Canadian Press first published June 4, 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/CourtPainter-Oilers-Fans.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/CourtPainter-Oilers-Fans.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/CourtPainter-Oilers-Fans-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/CourtPainter-Oilers-Fans-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f7e4f12c7658a7a1d8df86fc34f027ee\" style=\"color:#0967a6\">Court Painter seen with &#8220;Mark &amp; Danielle Oiler Fans&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON &#8212; Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she has invited Prime Minister Mark Carney to watch an Edmonton Oilers Stanley Cup Final game. Smith says she&#8217;s waiting to see if Carney will join her for Game 5, which could take place next weekend ahead of the G7 conference in Kananaskis, Alberta. Carney, who grew up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=29804\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hell freezing over ? &#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29804"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29818,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29804\/revisions\/29818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}