Thanks everyone for the info.
Bin doin some research and the skydive ranch seemed to be pretty sketchy. Seems the former owner had some questionable practices:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2005/...ve-050323.html
http://www.dropzone.com/news/Edmonto...diesinfi.shtml
But then again no risk, no reward.
I was thinking tandem since you get to free fall alot longer. The one place I saw that does solo has instructor assisted deployment with only a few seconds free fall so it doesn't seem as enjoyable (atleast for the first time).