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 juin 2026

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06/14/2026

Average data

Episodes: 167

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:42:26

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. ART19 (7 shows)

5. BBC (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
9	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
12	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
14	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
15	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
16	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
17	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
18	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
19	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
20	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
21	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
22	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
23	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
24	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
25	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	9	Acast	43
26	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
27	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
28	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
29	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
30	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
31	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
32	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
33	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
34	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
35	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
36	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
37	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
38	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
39	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
40	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
41	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
42	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
43	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
44	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
45	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
46	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
47	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
48	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
49	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
50	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
51	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
52	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
53	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
54	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
55	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
56	Everyday Abundance: The hidden stories behind everyday technologies	Virginia Postrel and Charles C. Mann	Society & Culture	8	Castos	52
57	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
58	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
59	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
60	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
61	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
62	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
63	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
64	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
65	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
66	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
67	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
68	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
69	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
70	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
71	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
72	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
73	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
74	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
75	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
76	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
77	The Backrooms 101	Sharp-B-4	Society & Culture	14	Spotify for Podcasters	53
78	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
79	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
80	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
81	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
82	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
83	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
84	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
85	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
86	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
87	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
88	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
89	Taylor McMahon	@tayjmcm	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	43
90	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
91	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
92	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
93	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
94	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
95	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
96	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
97	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
98	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
99	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	292	Audioboom	58
100	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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