Apple Podcast Rankings - Canada - Documentary

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in Canada

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in Canada. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 01 Mar 2026

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03/01/2026

Average data

Episodes: 158

Frequency: every 37 days

Duration: 00:45:52

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. CBC (4 shows)

3. audiochuck (2 shows)

4. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

5. BBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (15 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. BBC (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
2	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
5	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
6	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
10	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
11	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
13	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
16	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
18	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
19	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
20	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
21	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
22	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
23	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
24	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
25	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
26	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
27	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
28	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
29	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
30	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
31	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
32	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
33	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
34	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
35	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	43
36	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
37	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
38	Africville Forever	Podstarter Productions / Frequency Podcast Network	Society & Culture	13	Simplecast	59
39	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
40	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
41	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
42	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
43	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
44	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
45	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
46	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
47	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
48	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
49	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
50	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
51	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
52	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
53	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
54	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
55	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
56	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
57	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
58	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
59	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
60	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
61	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
62	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
63	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
64	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
65	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
66	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
67	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
68	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
69	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
70	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
71	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
72	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
73	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	39	Omny Studio	83
74	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
75	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
76	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
77	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
78	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
79	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
80	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
81	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
82	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
83	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
84	Made It Here	VoixCollective	Society & Culture	2	Spotify for Podcasters	43
85	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
86	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
87	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
88	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
89	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
90	Sorry About The Kid	CBC	Society & Culture	6	Triton Digital	53
91	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
92	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
93	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	713	Omny Studio	53
94	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
95	Our Common Nature	WNYC	Society & Culture	8	Simplecast	69
96	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
97	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
98	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
99	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
100	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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