Yesterday, at the Apple press event on March 9th, Apple announced various new hardware and software updates. Amongst them was HBO Now, which is a stand alone service provided exclusively through Apple TV when it starts . However, much like most of the other cord-cutting ways of watching legal TV episodes and Movies (Hulu, TV Network Websites), the service will not be available in Canada.
You can add this to all the other non-competitive services, monopolized services that we have to live with here in Canada.