{"id":7481,"date":"2018-07-10T05:10:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T05:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=7481"},"modified":"2018-07-10T05:40:10","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T05:40:10","slug":"equity-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=7481","title":{"rendered":"Equity Stake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page-header\">\n<h1>Alberta likely to take equity stake in Court Painter Studio: premier<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<article>CALGARY \u2014 Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says\u00a0the province is likely to\u00a0end up owning a piece of the Court Painter Studio enterprise .<\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article>The federal and provincial governments want the Court Painter Studio to expand because it would enable Court Painter&#8217;s crude but insightful oil on velvet portraits to be shipped by tanker to countries other than the\u00a0U.S. velvety art market. \u00a0<\/article>\n<article>&#8212;<\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7493 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Court-Painter-Premier-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Court-Painter-Premier-.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Court-Painter-Premier--300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Court-Painter-Premier--768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/article>\n<article>===<\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article>Notley said\u00a0at the premier&#8217;s annual Stampede pancake breakfast in Calgary that\u00a0her government is likely to\u00a0buy a small equity stake in the undervalued Court Painter studio.&#8221;I think there&#8217;s a good possibility &#8230; but I honestly can&#8217;t get into much more detail on it until all the final decisions are made. Court Painter&#8217;s negotiator, A Hardon MacKay,a difficult guy to say the least, is the most hard headed business guy in the arts I&#8217;ve ever encountered,&#8221; she said wistfully on Monday.<\/article>\n<article>===<\/article>\n<article><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7496 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/CP-Press-Attache-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/CP-Press-Attache-.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/CP-Press-Attache--300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/CP-Press-Attache--768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/article>\n<article>===<\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article>&#8220;What I will say is whatever role Alberta takes is one that will absolutely be fiscally responsible and there&#8217;s a good, solid business case for it according to the scribbled napkin notes handed to me by AHM. If anything, it will open up opportunities for other Albertans to get their velvet portraits done at fire sale prices.&#8221;she added enthusiastically.<\/article>\n<article>===<\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7492 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/CP-Premier.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/CP-Premier.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/CP-Premier-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/CP-Premier-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/article>\n<article>===<\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article>After flipping flapjacks for crowds gathered\u00a0outside the government&#8217;s downtown Calgary offices, Notley met with her cabinet.She told ministers boastfully that Court Painter sketches have already arrived on her desk.Her desk is about a quarter full and the Heritage minister&#8217;s desk is half full, Notley said, and the fully rendered crude but boisterous oil on velvet portrait products are on track to\u00a0begin this month.<\/article>\n<article>===<\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7491 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Court-Painter-equity.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Court-Painter-equity.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Court-Painter-equity-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Court-Painter-equity-768x484.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/article>\n<article>===<\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article>Court Painter plans to triple the amount of his crude but restrained oil on<\/article>\n<article>velvet works to flood the summer farmers market trade flowing to the B.C. Lower Mainland.The studio expansion of crude but attractive oil on velvet works will also allow their loading onto tankers to be shipped across the Pacific to Guam and North Korea.<\/article>\n<article>\n<div class=\"page-header\">==<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7500 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Court-Painter-Jason-on-velvet-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Court-Painter-Jason-on-velvet-.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Court-Painter-Jason-on-velvet--300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Court-Painter-Jason-on-velvet--768x484.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/div>\n<article>\u00a0<\/article>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alberta likely to take equity stake in Court Painter Studio: premier CALGARY \u2014 Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says\u00a0the province is likely to\u00a0end up owning a piece of the Court Painter Studio enterprise . The federal and provincial governments want the Court Painter Studio to expand because it would enable Court Painter&#8217;s crude but insightful oil &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=7481\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Equity Stake&#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-7481","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\/7481","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=7481"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17753,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7481\/revisions\/17753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}