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 14 Feb 2026

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02/14/2026

Average data

Episodes: 168

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:46:08

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (19 shows)

2. Acast (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Spreaker (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
2	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
7	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
9	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
11	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
13	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
14	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
15	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
16	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
19	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
20	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
21	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
22	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
23	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
24	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
25	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
26	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
27	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
28	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
29	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
30	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
31	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
32	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
33	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
34	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
35	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
36	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
37	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
38	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
39	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
40	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
41	Africville Forever	Podstarter Productions / Frequency Podcast Network	Society & Culture	13	Simplecast	59
42	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
43	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
44	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
45	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
46	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
47	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	367	Audion	58
48	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
49	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
50	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
51	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
52	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
53	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
54	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
55	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
56	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
57	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
58	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
59	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
60	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
61	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
62	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
63	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
64	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
65	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
66	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
67	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
68	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
69	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
70	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
71	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
72	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
73	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
74	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
75	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
76	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
77	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
78	Curious Tourism: Responsible Travel Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Erin Elizabeth Hynes of Pina Travels	Society & Culture	158	Audioboom	47
79	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	64	Spreaker	43
80	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
81	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
82	Soothing History for Sleep	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	18	Podbean	58
83	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
84	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
85	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
86	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
87	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
88	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
89	Steven Bartlett - Biography Flash Details temporarily unavailable	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	1	Spreaker	69
90	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	205	Megaphone	32
91	Jay Shetty - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	76	Spreaker	69
92	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
93	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
94	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
95	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
96	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
97	The Palisades Fire: A Sandcastles Special	Wave Maker Media	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
98	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
99	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	The Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	47	Podbean	58
100	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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