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 Sep 2026

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09/09/2026

Average data

Episodes: 151

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:43:59

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

2. CBC (2 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

4. BBC (2 shows)

5. The Guardian (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. BBC (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
5	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	272	WideOrbit	48
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
7	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
8	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
9	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
10	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
11	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
12	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
13	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
14	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
15	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
16	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
17	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
18	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
19	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
20	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
21	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
22	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
23	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
24	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
25	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
26	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
27	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
28	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
29	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
30	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
31	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
32	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
33	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
34	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
35	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
36	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
37	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
38	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
39	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
40	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
41	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
42	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
43	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
44	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
45	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
46	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
47	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
48	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
49	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	306	WideOrbit	68
50	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
51	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
52	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
53	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
54	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
55	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	32	Podbean	41
56	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	412	Buzzsprout	83
57	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
58	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
59	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
60	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
61	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
62	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
63	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
64	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
65	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
66	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
67	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
68	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
69	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	237	Acast	43
70	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
71	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
72	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
73	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	355	Simplecast	78
74	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
75	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
76	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
77	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
78	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
79	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
80	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
81	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
82	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
83	Lost Boys of Pickering	Jamielynne Hammond	Society & Culture	3	RSS.com	52
84	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
85	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
86	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
87	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
88	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
89	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
90	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
91	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	107	Acast	73
92	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
93	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
94	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
95	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
96	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
97	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
98	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
99	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	22
100	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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