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 11 Jun 2026

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06/11/2026

Average data

Episodes: 166

Frequency: every 42 days

Duration: 00:45:31

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (3 shows)

2. Audible (2 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (18 shows)

2. Megaphone (18 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. BBC (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	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
9	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
10	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
13	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
14	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
16	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
17	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
18	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
19	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
20	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
21	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
22	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
23	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
24	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
25	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
26	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
27	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
28	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	9	Acast	43
29	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
30	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
31	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
32	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
33	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
34	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
35	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
36	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
37	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
38	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
39	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
40	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
41	Everyday Abundance: The hidden stories behind everyday technologies	Virginia Postrel and Charles C. Mann	Society & Culture	8	Castos	52
42	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
43	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
44	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
45	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
46	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
47	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
48	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
49	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
50	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
51	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
52	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
53	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
54	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
55	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
56	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
57	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
58	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
59	Taylor McMahon	@tayjmcm	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	43
60	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
61	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
62	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
63	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
64	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
65	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
66	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
67	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
68	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
69	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
70	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
71	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
72	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
73	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
74	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
75	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
76	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
77	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
78	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
79	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
80	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
81	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
82	Pop Mystery Pod	Tess Barker	Society & Culture	93	Simplecast	73
83	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	521	Spreaker	43
84	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
85	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
86	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
87	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
88	Escafandro	Rádio Escafandro	Society & Culture	202	Spotify for Podcasters	38
89	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
90	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
91	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
92	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
93	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
94	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	204	Megaphone	32
95	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
96	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
97	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
98	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
99	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
100	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69

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