From Jonathan Chevreau of the Financial Post:

• Reality show puts spotlight on fiscally fragile families
  “If debt were a swimming pool, we’d be drowning,” one beleagured couple tells the cameras. Co-host Bruce Sellery comes across like Jeff Probst, host of Survivor: alternatively scolding and cajoling the local citizenry about their financial waywardness. In Sunday’s debut, Sellery and clinical psychologist Joti Samra introduce themselves by jumping out of an armoured truck while a helicopter sprinkles dollar bills from the sky. Read more.

From Luis-Enrique Arrazola of the National Post:

• Gastown Gamble shows a new Brand of business
  Although perfect reality-TV fodder, the opening-day snafus were far from scripted, Brand insists. “I was hoping that they’d come up with another name for ’reality show,’” says the entrepreneur, who happens to be cynical about reality television himself. “The connotation there really sucks. It means that it’s going to be bulls—, from what we’ve had as precursors to what we’re doing.” Read more.