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 oct. 2025

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10/13/2025

Average data

Episodes: 216

Frequency: every 248 days

Duration: 00:45:12

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (18 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
2	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
3	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
6	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
8	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
10	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
11	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
12	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
15	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
17	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
18	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
19	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
20	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
21	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
22	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
23	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
24	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
25	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
26	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
27	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
28	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
29	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
30	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
31	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
32	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
33	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
34	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
35	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	367	Audion	58
36	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
37	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
38	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
39	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
40	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
41	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
42	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
43	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
44	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
45	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
46	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
47	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
48	Des histoires qui résonnent : le Balado des proches aidants - animé par Marina Orsini Details temporarily unavailable	Des histoires qui résonnent : le Balado des proches aidants - Animé par Marina Orsini	Society & Culture	45	Audioboom	68
49	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
50	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
51	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
52	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
53	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
54	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
55	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
56	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
57	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
58	ALIEN THEORISTS THEORIZING	Big Theory Podcasts	Society & Culture	550	RedCircle	49
59	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
61	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
62	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
63	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
64	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
65	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
66	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
67	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
68	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
69	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
70	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
71	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
72	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
73	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
74	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
75	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
76	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
77	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
78	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
79	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
80	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
81	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
82	The Corrymeela Podcast	Corrymeela	Society & Culture	43	Squarespace	58
83	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
84	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
85	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
86	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
87	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
88	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	271	PRX	43
89	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
90	Transgression - My Search For the REAL Trans Agenda in Saskatchewan	Todd Rennebohm	Society & Culture	9	Spotify for Podcasters	38
91	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
92	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
93	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
94	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
95	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
96	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	110	Ximalaya	59
97	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
98	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	292	Audioboom	58
99	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
100	香港電台：古今風雲人物	RTHK.HK	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	38

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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