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 Aug 2026

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08/11/2026

Average data

Episodes: 153

Frequency: every 42 days

Duration: 00:43:42

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Simplecast (9 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. BBC (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
4	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	9	Acast	43
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
8	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	12	PRX	69
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
10	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
11	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
12	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
13	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
16	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
17	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
18	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
19	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
20	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
21	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
22	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
23	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
24	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
25	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
26	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
27	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
28	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
29	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
30	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
31	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
32	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	188	Simplecast	58
33	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
34	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
35	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
36	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
37	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
38	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
39	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
40	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
41	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
42	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
43	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
44	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
45	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
46	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
47	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
48	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
49	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
50	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
51	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
52	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
53	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
54	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
55	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
56	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
57	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
58	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
59	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
60	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
61	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
62	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
63	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
64	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
65	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
66	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
67	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
68	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
69	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
70	Collapse: Disaster in Surfside	Treefort Media & Miami Herald	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	69
71	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83
72	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
73	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
74	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
75	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
76	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
77	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
78	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
79	Al Jazeera Documentary	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	21	Spreaker	49
80	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
81	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
82	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
83	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
84	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	19	Captivate	73
85	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
86	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
87	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
88	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
89	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	48
90	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
91	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
92	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
93	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
94	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
95	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
96	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
97	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
98	Coffeehouse Crime	Coffeehouse Crime	Society & Culture	895	Spreaker	49
99	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
100	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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