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 08 Jul 2026

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07/08/2026

Average data

Episodes: 179

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:44:45

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. BBC (7 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	63
2	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1009	Simplecast	38
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	531	ART19	68
7	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	149	Acast	73
8	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
9	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	380	Spreaker	84
10	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
13	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
14	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
15	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
16	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
18	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
19	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
20	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	219	Acast	79
21	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	67	Acast	83
22	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
23	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
24	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
25	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	79
26	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
27	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	11	Acast	53
28	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
29	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	266	Spreaker	69
30	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
31	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
32	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
33	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	138	N/A	N/A
34	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	102	BBC	53
35	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	824	Megaphone	53
36	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
37	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	103	PRX	64
38	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
39	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
40	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	204	Simplecast	58
41	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	265	Acast	69
42	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
43	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	18	ART19	63
44	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
45	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	372	Megaphone	43
46	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
47	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
48	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
49	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
50	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
51	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
52	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
53	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	979	Megaphone	52
54	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
55	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	373	Audion	58
56	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
57	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway Details temporarily unavailable	Sky News	Society & Culture	10	Captivate	42
58	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
59	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
60	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
61	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	231	PRX	79
62	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
63	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
64	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
65	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
66	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
67	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
68	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
69	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	456	Acast	74
70	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
71	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
72	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
73	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
74	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
75	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
76	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
77	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
78	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
79	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
80	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
81	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
82	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
83	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1194	Acast	59
84	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	42	BBC	58
85	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	96	WideOrbit	68
86	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	164	Spotify for Podcasters	28
87	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
88	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
89	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
90	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	42
91	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
92	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
93	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
94	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
95	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
96	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
97	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
98	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
99	I Survived The Wild Outdoors	Brad Mathewson	Society & Culture	59	Acast	68
100	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	16	Transistor	73

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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