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 Oct 2026

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10/04/2026

Average data

Episodes: 137

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:45:10

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. BBC (7 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. Omny Studio (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
2	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
4	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	11	Acast	53
5	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
9	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
10	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
11	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
12	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
16	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
17	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
18	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
19	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
20	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
21	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	4	Acast	79
22	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
23	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
24	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
25	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	193	Simplecast	58
26	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
27	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
28	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
29	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
30	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
31	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
32	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
33	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
34	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
35	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
36	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
37	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
38	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
39	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
40	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	86	Unknown	63
41	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
42	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
43	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
44	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	303	WideOrbit	68
45	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
46	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
47	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
48	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
49	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
50	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
51	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
52	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	4	PRX	59
53	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
54	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
55	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
56	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
57	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
58	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	22	Captivate	73
59	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
60	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
61	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
62	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
63	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
64	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
65	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
66	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
67	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
68	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
69	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
70	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
71	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
72	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
73	History Well Told	Pri-media	Society & Culture	267	Spotify for Podcasters	28
74	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
75	Call Sign Condor: Latino Soldiers Fighting in Ukraine	DW, LA Times Studios, Futuro Studios	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	68
76	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
77	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
78	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
79	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
80	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
81	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
82	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
83	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
84	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
85	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
86	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	78	Megaphone	62
87	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
88	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
89	Sorry About The Kid	CBC	Society & Culture	6	Triton Digital	53
90	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
91	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
92	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
93	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
94	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
95	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	228	Acast	43
96	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
97	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
98	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
99	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	73
100	Le dernier vol de Raymond Boulanger : Révélations	iHeartRadio	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

The podcast landscape in Canada is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

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