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 Jun 2026

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06/09/2026

Average data

Episodes: 166

Frequency: every 42 days

Duration: 00:44:58

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (3 shows)

2. The Observer (2 shows)

3. Audible (2 shows)

4. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

5. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (8 shows)

4. Simplecast (6 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
6	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
8	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
11	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
12	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
13	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
14	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
15	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
16	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
17	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
19	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
20	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
21	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
22	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
23	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
24	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
25	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
26	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
27	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
28	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
29	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
30	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
31	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
32	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
33	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
34	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
35	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
36	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
37	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
38	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
39	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
40	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
41	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
42	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
43	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	9	Acast	43
44	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
45	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
46	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
47	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
48	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
49	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
50	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
51	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
52	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
53	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
54	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
55	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
56	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
57	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
58	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
59	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
60	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
61	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
62	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
63	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
64	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
65	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
66	Taylor McMahon	@tayjmcm	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	43
67	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
68	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
69	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
70	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
71	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
72	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
73	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
74	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
75	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
76	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
77	Everyday Abundance: The hidden stories behind everyday technologies	Virginia Postrel and Charles C. Mann	Society & Culture	8	Castos	52
78	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
79	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
80	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
81	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
82	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
83	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
84	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
85	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
86	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
87	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
88	Histoires lesbiennes	Marine GILIS	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
89	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
90	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
91	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
92	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
93	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
94	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83
95	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
96	Oser s'en parler	Oser s'en parler	Society & Culture	16	Unknown	49
97	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
98	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
99	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
100	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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