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 09 Feb 2026

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02/09/2026

Average data

Episodes: 148

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:44:57

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. audiochuck (2 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (18 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
2	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
3	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
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	313	Megaphone	42
9	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
11	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
14	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
15	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
16	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
18	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
19	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
20	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
21	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
22	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
23	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
24	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
25	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
26	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
27	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
28	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
29	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
30	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
31	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
32	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
33	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
34	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
35	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
36	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
37	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	29	Acast	78
38	Africville Forever	Podstarter Productions / Frequency Podcast Network	Society & Culture	13	Simplecast	59
39	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
40	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
41	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
42	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
43	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
44	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
45	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
46	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
47	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	129	BBC	38
48	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
49	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
50	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
51	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
52	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
53	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	Audiomeans	73
54	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
55	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
56	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	29	Simplecast	63
57	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
58	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
59	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
60	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
61	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
62	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
63	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
64	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
65	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
66	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
67	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
68	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
69	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
70	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
71	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
72	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
73	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
74	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
75	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
76	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
77	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
78	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
79	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
80	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
81	The Palisades Fire: A Sandcastles Special	Wave Maker Media	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
82	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
83	Des histoires qui résonnent : le Balado des proches aidants - animé par Marina Orsini Details temporarily unavailable	Des histoires qui résonnent : le Balado des proches aidants - Animé par Marina Orsini	Society & Culture	45	Audioboom	68
84	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
85	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
86	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
87	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
88	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
89	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
90	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
91	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
92	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
93	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
94	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	173	Spotify for Podcasters	28
95	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
96	I Survived The Wild Outdoors	Brad Mathewson	Society & Culture	59	Acast	68
97	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
98	Autre perspective	Kollectif	Society & Culture	12	Acast	89
99	Yeti	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	49
100	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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