Here’s a first look at YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE, the new ichannel original documentary by award-winning writer/director Kevin O’Keefe. Now in the production, the hour-long film is an eye-opening investigation into the struggle that many people  face accessing health care in Canada.

YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE is slated to make its world television premiere on ichannel in fall 2012.

ichannel, Canada’s political and social issues network, is feeling the love this Valentine’s, with documentary and movie specials that take a thought-provoking look at the nature of relationships and romance.

THE LADY SAYS NO
Sunday Feb. 12, 8 pm ET/PT
Handsome Life magazine photographer Bill Shelby (David Niven) arrives in picturesque Carmel, California to snap his latest subject, Dorinda Hatch (Joan Caulfield), author of The Lady Says No, a best-seller that warns women away from men. Deriding her proto-feminist tome as “spinster rubbish,” Shelby sets out to undermine Dorinda’s theories and awaken her romantic impulses. Frank Ross directed this lightweight but charming 1951 battle-of-the-sexes romp, which offers a revealing glimpse into the era’s sexual attitudes and mores.

PROJECT PASSION
Monday Feb. 13, 9 pm ET/PT
Can a failing relationship be saved? That’s the question 15 real-life couples will face, as they gather in the Arizona desert for an intensive series of workshops aimed at rekindling their love lives. This hour-long documentary by Trish Bush follows the couples as they open up – sometimes with shocking honesty – and confront the obstacles that can stand in the way of building happy, committed and fulfilling marriages.

THE FIVE LANGUAGES OF LOVE WITH DR. GARY CHAPMAN
Tuesday Feb. 14, 8 pm ET/PT
Gary Chapman is a relationship counselor and New York Times bestselling author. In this hour-long special, he explores his concept of the five love languages: a way of understanding and interpreting how different people express love. Knowing your partner’s love language, he says, improves communication in a relationship and can help renew and restore intimacy between couples.

SECRETS TO LOVE
Tuesday Feb. 14, 9 pm ET/PT
Filmmaker Tracie Donahue was an all-American girl who grew up fantasizing about an all-American marriage to the man of her dreams. And like many all-American marriages, hers ended in divorce. In this irreverent and witty documentary, Donahue embarks on a quest to understand why some couples manage to live happily ever after – and why so many others don’t.