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SBS On Demand Benedikt Rikhardsson (Olafur Darri Olafsson) is a big man and a political leader with big ideas. “I just want to have great ambitions,” the iconoclastic chairman of the Independence Party explains to his colleagues. Icelandic political TV drama The Minister, starring Olafur Darri Olafsson as Benedikt Rickhardsson, is screening on SBS on Demand. But is he a visionary – a breath-of-fresh-air idealist, devoid of cynicism and unencumbered by the conventional ways – or is he a hopeless naif and a potentially anarchic force? That’s the question at the heart of this eight-par...

Canada's foreign policy agenda in 2021 There will be a new goal in the coming year: getting ahead (and getting heard) in an unfriendly, chaotic world In the iconic West Wing episode “Hartsfield’s Landing”—recently adapted by most of the original cast in a special urging Americans to vote—that romantic ideal of a president, Jed Bartlet, navigates a geopolitical crisis while juggling chess games with staff. He urges them to “see the whole board.” We hesitate to suggest that Canadian cabinet meetings sound anything much like an Aaron Sorkin script. But there is much at play in the...

Canada Geese take flight at the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Concord, Mass. (Glenn Rifkin) The sky above the open expanse at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Concord, Mass. was ablaze with red clouds reflecting the sunrise. The colors, as dawn transformed into a cold, crisp morning, were dazzling, and the early hour meant we had this wondrous place nearly to ourselves. As a serious amateur bird photographer, I spend a fair amount of time during the year at Great Meadows. With its open water, extensive reed-covered marshes, and nearby woods and river, it is a bird lover�...