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 Apr 2026

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04/14/2026

Average data

Episodes: 144

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:44:09

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. BBC World Service (2 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 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	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
9	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
10	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
12	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	15	BBC	63
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
15	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
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	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
19	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
20	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
21	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
22	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
23	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
24	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
25	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
26	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
27	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
28	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
29	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
30	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
31	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
32	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
33	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
34	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
35	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
36	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
37	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
38	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
39	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
40	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
41	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
42	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
43	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
44	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
45	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
46	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
47	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
48	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
49	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
50	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
51	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
52	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
53	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
54	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
55	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
56	Where Is John's Daughter?	Jamie & Natalie	Society & Culture	10	Unknown	63
57	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
58	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
59	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
60	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
61	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
62	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
63	Death in Westminster	Planet B Productions	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	48
64	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
65	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	106	Acast	73
66	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
67	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
68	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
69	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
70	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
71	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
72	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
73	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
74	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
75	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	19	Acast	90
76	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
77	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
78	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
79	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
80	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
81	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
82	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
83	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	113	Ximalaya	59
84	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
85	Sinister with Josh Zeman	Sinister with Josh Zeman	Society & Culture	1	Unknown	59
86	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
87	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
88	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
89	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
90	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
91	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
92	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
93	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
94	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
95	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
96	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
97	Our Common Nature	WNYC	Society & Culture	8	Simplecast	69
98	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
99	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	127	Buzzsprout	53
100	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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