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 mai 2026

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05/05/2026

Average data

Episodes: 153

Frequency: every 45 days

Duration: 00:46:09

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. BBC (10 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
2	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
3	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
4	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
8	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
11	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
16	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
17	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
18	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
19	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
20	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
21	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
22	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
23	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
24	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
25	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
26	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	135	N/A	N/A
27	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
28	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
29	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
30	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
31	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
32	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
33	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
34	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
35	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
36	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
37	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
38	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
39	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
40	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
41	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
42	The Banksy Story	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	19	BBC	33
43	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
44	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
45	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
46	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
47	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
48	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
49	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
50	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
51	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
52	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
53	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
54	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
55	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
56	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
57	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
58	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
59	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
60	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
61	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	212	Acast	79
62	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
63	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
64	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
65	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
66	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
67	The Corrymeela Podcast	Corrymeela	Society & Culture	43	Squarespace	58
68	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
69	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
70	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
71	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
72	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
73	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
74	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
75	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
76	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
77	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
78	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
79	Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement \| Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation	Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan	Society & Culture	375	Blubrry Podcasting	43
80	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
81	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
82	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
83	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
84	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
85	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
86	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
87	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
88	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
89	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
90	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
91	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
92	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
93	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
94	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
95	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
96	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
97	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
98	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
99	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
100	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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