If you get a chance, Newfoundland and Labrador is worth a serious look. The people generally are unlike other Canadians, stronger instincts for home and community, smart as hell culturally, literature especially, the arts---and the landscapes unlike anything else in Canada. Our Chris Dawe, currently beating off quail in Arizona, is another Newfoundland treasure, lives a few miles outside capital of St. John's. I once asked the chancellor of McGill University in Montreal, Cyril James, who he thought were the smartest Canadians. He demurred, said it was impossible to say. Well, guess, I said. He said Newfoundlanders. Why? I don't know, he said, it may be their schools or we get the best of them. From my experience from outports to premier offices, they're at the top of the heap.