Well, until you put your own satellite in the air and negotiate programming deals with channel providers and the CRTC, I guess you'll just have to suffer along with it.
As the PVR comment shows, if a forum exists long enough, there'll be a complaint about everything. I love my PVR and would hate to go back to vhs tape. Yes, sometimes you can skip a little too far, but that's what the back button is for.
As far as AMC, maybe if we could muster up enough original programming here in Canada, we wouldn't have to go begging to the USA for programming. We can't all sit around watching Corner Gas re-runs, Little Mosque on The Prairie, and the Air Farce all day.