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 13 Apr 2026

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04/13/2026

Average data

Episodes: 153

Frequency: every 242 days

Duration: 00:47:28

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

3. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. CBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
2	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
3	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
5	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
8	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
13	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	15	BBC	63
14	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
15	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
17	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
18	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
19	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
20	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
21	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
22	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
23	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
24	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
25	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
26	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
27	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
28	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
29	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
30	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
31	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
32	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
33	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
34	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
35	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
36	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
37	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
38	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
39	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
40	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
41	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
42	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
43	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
44	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
45	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
46	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
47	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
48	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
49	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
50	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
51	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
52	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
53	Where Is John's Daughter?	Jamie & Natalie	Society & Culture	10	Unknown	63
54	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
55	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
56	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
57	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
58	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
59	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
60	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
61	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
62	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
63	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
64	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
65	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
66	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
67	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
68	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
69	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
70	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
71	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
72	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
73	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
74	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
75	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
76	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
77	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
78	Our Common Nature	WNYC	Society & Culture	8	Simplecast	69
79	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	106	Acast	73
80	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
81	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
82	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
83	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
84	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
85	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
86	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
87	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
88	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
89	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	127	Buzzsprout	53
90	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
91	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
92	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
93	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
94	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
95	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
96	Sinister with Josh Zeman	Sinister with Josh Zeman	Society & Culture	1	Unknown	59
97	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
98	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	Audiomeans	73
99	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
100	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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