Thanks airhawk, I've been happy with the flying characteristics so far.
I noticed in the "Rocket Shinden" video that they had the elevator on the canard. I tried that on my v1 of this plane and it was uncontrollable, I figured it was because the elevator flaps were too close to the CG (which you can see in the picture is the little black dot about 1" forward of the wing leading edge). The nose on the FT shinden is much longer than mine so that probably is not an issue for pitch authority for them, but maybe there is some kind of bad interaction between the canard flow and the wing. Anyway, this plane has elevons (obviously) which have been much better.
I've got quite a bit of AoA on the canards (10deg, like the Viggen) so that they will stall first and drop the nose. They stall pretty early though so the slow-speed flying isn't really there. I think I'll try moving them forward a bit with a little less AoA and see if I can get it to fly a little slower. The nice thing is that after the first version failed I attached the wing with rubber bands and skewers instead of hot glue, so I can try out a bunch of different fuselage/canard mods easily.