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 04 Jun 2026

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06/04/2026

Average data

Episodes: 171

Frequency: every 26 days

Duration: 00:47:13

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (3 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. The Telegraph (2 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. BBC (7 shows)

5. Spreaker (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
2	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	73
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
4	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	354	ART19	68
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	309	Megaphone	42
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	941	Simplecast	38
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
9	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	24	Spreaker	84
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
12	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	48
13	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	67	Acast	83
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	438	Megaphone	32
16	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
17	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	23	ART19	73
18	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	215	Megaphone	38
19	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
20	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	99	Acast	79
21	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	118	Acast	73
22	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	164	Acast	69
23	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	191	PRX	79
24	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	71	Triton Digital	63
25	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	11	Acast	53
26	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	267	Spreaker	69
27	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	87	Unknown	63
28	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
29	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
30	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	110	BBC	38
31	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
32	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	138	N/A	N/A
33	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
34	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	703	Megaphone	53
35	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
36	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
37	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	64
38	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
39	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
40	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	23	RSS.com	52
41	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
42	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
43	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
44	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	446	Acast	74
45	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
46	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	282	Megaphone	43
47	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
48	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
49	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	96	WideOrbit	68
50	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
51	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
52	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
53	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
54	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
55	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
56	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	81	Spreaker	43
57	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	91	Libsyn	62
58	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
59	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
60	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
61	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	190	Ximalaya	53
62	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
63	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
64	Voice Of GO(r)D	Gord Magill - autonomoustruckers.substack.com	Society & Culture	132	Spotify for Podcasters	63
65	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
66	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
67	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
68	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
69	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	51	RedCircle	63
70	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	125	Buzzsprout	53
71	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	211	Acast	79
72	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
73	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
74	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
75	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	111	Ximalaya	59
76	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
77	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	152	Spotify for Podcasters	52
78	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
79	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1198	Acast	59
80	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
81	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	230	Acast	43
82	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
83	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	167	Spotify for Podcasters	28
84	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
85	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
86	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
87	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	198	ART19	37
88	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
89	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
90	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	413	BBC	28
91	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
92	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
93	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
94	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
95	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
96	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
97	Cruising \| Queer History and Culture	Sarah Gabrielli, Rachel Karp, and Jennifer McGinity	Society & Culture	89	Buzzsprout	57
98	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
99	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	23	Captivate	73
100	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	527	Spreaker	43

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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