We like the TMN/HBO package, with the on-demand channels and the apps, as well. We watch a lot of the HBO and Showtime shows, so TMN is great. I have no doubt we'll keep it. Given it's already a stand-alone service, I imagine the price will remain largely the same (although who knows with these goddamn cable/telecom companies).
We rarely ever watch news on TV anymore, but I would keep a news channel, probably CBC News Network (which, as an old geezer, I still call CBC Newsworld).
Never watch CPAC, but it's online anyway. I think it is supposed to be included in the mandatory skinny basic cable channels.
Other than that, we'd want the main Canadian and U.S. broadcast networks. My spouse is addicted to HGTV and DIY, so those are sacrosanct in our house. And I like the time-shifting package, and would keep it depending on how much Rogers wants for it.
Otherwise, the rest can go. We never watch any of it. Most of it anyway.
As for Bittorrent (or similarly, using a VPN service to hide one's IP so as to use services like BBC iPlayer), we only do it for TV shows. We don't do it for films, because movies are typically made available to us at the same time, or close to it, as the rest of the world (even independent films usually get shown in Toronto within a decent timeframe). We're always willing to pay for content if it's made available to us. But we use bittorrent for TV because the Canadian broadcast system is fundamentally broken, most of the broadcasters still think it's the 1990s. If we can access a TV show when it first becomes available in the rest of the world, then we'll happily pay for it (so, for example, Games of Thrones airs here in Canada the same time as everywhere else, so we happily subscribe to TMN to watch it). The stuff we download off bittorrent, however, are typically shows for which there is no set air date in Canada, or it probably won't be airing in Canada, or if it eventually airs in Canada it could be months (or even years) in the future. It's unbelievable how often I will read lots of coverage online about interesting, compelling shows that are getting lots of attention elsewhere, but either there is no information anywhere online on when it might happen to air in Canada, or there is vague information about how it will air on some channel at some undetermined "future date", or the Canadian broadcaster has simply decide to arbitrarily air it 7 months later. So we bypass the Canadian broadcasters. They are their own worst enemy. If they can't get their act together, Canadians will abandon them. We already are abandoning them.