Dr Simon, you're an ecologist? No wonder we keep agreeing! I guess being from the North East perhaps partly informs your left leanings, after all Thatcher kept closing down the mines and inciting riots.
I know Canada's cold in winter but I want to do a summer work placement at Haliburton forest but they won't get back to me, I've sent them an email and a letter. I thought it was a match made in heaven. I'll keep badgering them. I like lots of Canadian musicians too: esp. Rush but also some Alanis Morisette, Jeff Healey etc. Toronto must have such a cool music scene!