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 05 Mar 2026

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03/05/2026

Average data

Episodes: 165

Frequency: every 40 days

Duration: 00:45:01

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. The Observer (2 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (18 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. BBC (7 shows)

5. Buzzsprout (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
2	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
5	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
6	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
10	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
11	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
12	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
13	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
14	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
16	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
18	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
19	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
20	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
21	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
22	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
23	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
24	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
25	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
26	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
27	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
28	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
29	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
30	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
31	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
32	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
33	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
34	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
35	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
36	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
37	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
38	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
39	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
40	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
41	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
42	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
43	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
44	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
45	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	271	PRX	43
46	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
47	The Silenced Truth	Carolyn McCulley \| Citygate Communications	Society & Culture	2	Buzzsprout	73
48	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
49	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
50	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
51	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
52	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
53	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
54	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
55	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
56	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
57	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
58	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
59	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
60	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
61	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
62	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
63	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
64	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
65	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
66	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83
67	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
68	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
69	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
70	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
71	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
72	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
73	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
74	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
75	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
76	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
77	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
78	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
79	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
80	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
81	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
82	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
83	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
84	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
85	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
86	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
87	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
88	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
89	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
90	Made It Here	VoixCollective	Society & Culture	2	Spotify for Podcasters	43
91	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
92	Al Jazeera English	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	49
93	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
94	On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse	On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse	Society & Culture	251	Buzzsprout	42
95	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
96	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
97	Africville Forever	Podstarter Productions / Frequency Podcast Network	Society & Culture	13	Simplecast	59
98	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
99	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
100	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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