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 06 Jan 2026

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01/06/2026

Average data

Episodes: 158

Frequency: every 244 days

Duration: 00:47:00

Top 5 authors

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

2. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

4. CBC (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Simplecast (9 shows)

4. PRX (8 shows)

5. BBC (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
2	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
4	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
7	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
9	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
11	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
13	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
16	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
17	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
18	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
19	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
20	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
21	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
22	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
23	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
24	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
25	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
26	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
27	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
28	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
29	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
30	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
31	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
32	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
33	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
34	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
35	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
36	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
37	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
38	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
39	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
40	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
41	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
42	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
43	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
44	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
45	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
46	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
47	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
48	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
49	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
50	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
51	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
52	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
53	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
54	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
55	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
56	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
57	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
58	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
59	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
60	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
61	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
62	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
63	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
64	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
65	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
66	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
67	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
68	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
69	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
70	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
71	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
72	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
73	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
74	Adrfit	The Adrift Podcast	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	43
75	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
76	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	43
77	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
78	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
79	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
80	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
81	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
82	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
83	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	29	Simplecast	63
84	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
85	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
86	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
87	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
88	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
89	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
90	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
91	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
92	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
93	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
94	The Palisades Fire: A Sandcastles Special	Wave Maker Media	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
95	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
96	Chameleon: Dr. Miracle	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	3	Megaphone	63
97	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
98	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
99	PRIDE AND PREDATOR	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	6	Substack	79
100	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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