I'm not a regular reader of any of the free dailies, but here are some impressions just the same:
Dose
* lots of content from actual writers, not just wire services
* typical CanWest smug and right-leaning attitude

Metro
* pretty reasonable, content and design are inoffensive

24
* the worst of the lot. The cover page is a designer's nightmare and looks like a Word '97 template with bad colours
* content is the Jim Pattison newsletter, so calling it a newspaper of any kind is likely wrong. Definitely shooting for the ages above which Dose is targetting

Overall, I'm not too impressed. I did notice that Translink felt compelled to put a half-page ad into Dose to ask people to recycle their copy of Dose instead of leaving it strewn across the bus or skytrain. Nice.