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 Aug 2026

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08/03/2026

Average data

Episodes: 160

Frequency: every 42 days

Duration: 00:45:46

Top 5 authors

1. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Simplecast (9 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. BBC (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
2	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
3	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
8	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
10	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
11	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
12	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
13	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
14	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	12	PRX	69
15	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
16	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
17	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
18	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
19	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
20	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
21	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
22	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
23	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
24	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
25	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
26	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
27	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
28	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
29	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
30	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	188	Simplecast	58
31	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
32	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
33	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
34	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
35	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
36	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
37	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
38	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
39	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
40	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
41	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
42	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
43	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
44	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
45	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
46	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
47	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
48	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
49	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
50	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
51	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
52	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
53	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	9	Acast	43
54	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
55	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
56	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
57	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
58	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
59	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
60	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
61	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
62	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
63	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
64	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
65	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
66	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
67	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
68	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
69	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
70	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
71	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
72	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
73	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
74	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
75	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
76	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
77	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
78	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
79	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
80	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
81	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
82	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
83	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
84	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
85	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
86	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
87	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
88	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
89	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
90	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
91	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
92	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
93	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
94	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
95	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
96	L'Avenir nous le dira	Victor Galarreta	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	43
97	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
98	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
99	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
100	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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