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 03 Jun 2026

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06/03/2026

Average data

Episodes: 169

Frequency: every 26 days

Duration: 00:46:00

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. The Telegraph (2 shows)

3. Audible (2 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
2	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	160	Acast	43
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	311	Megaphone	42
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	942	Simplecast	38
6	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	356	ART19	68
8	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	52	Megaphone	48
11	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	441	Megaphone	32
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
14	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
15	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	68	Acast	83
16	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	25	ART19	73
17	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
19	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	217	Megaphone	38
20	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	12	Acast	53
21	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	116	Acast	73
22	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
23	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	269	Spreaker	69
24	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	119	BBC	38
25	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
26	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
27	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	706	Megaphone	53
28	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
29	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
30	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	136	N/A	N/A
31	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	88	Unknown	63
32	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
33	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
34	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
35	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
36	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
37	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	14	BBC	63
38	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
39	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
40	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
41	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
42	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
43	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
44	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
45	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
46	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
47	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
48	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	191	Ximalaya	53
49	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	24	RSS.com	58
50	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	26	Acast	83
51	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
52	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
53	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	92	Libsyn	62
54	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	448	Acast	74
55	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	153	Spotify for Podcasters	52
56	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	125	Buzzsprout	53
57	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
58	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
59	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	232	Acast	43
60	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
61	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
62	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
63	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	53	RedCircle	73
64	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
65	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
66	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
67	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	24	Captivate	73
68	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
69	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
70	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
71	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	383	Audion	58
72	Voice Of GO(r)D	Gord Magill - autonomoustruckers.substack.com	Society & Culture	132	Spotify for Podcasters	63
73	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
74	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
75	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
76	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
77	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
78	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1202	Acast	59
79	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	415	BBC	28
80	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
81	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	97	WideOrbit	68
82	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
83	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
84	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
85	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
86	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
87	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
88	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
89	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
90	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
91	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
92	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	212	Acast	79
93	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
94	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	201	ART19	37
95	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
96	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
97	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	170	Spotify for Podcasters	28
98	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
99	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
100	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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