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 15 Feb 2026

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02/15/2026

Average data

Episodes: 178

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:45:01

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

4. CBC (2 shows)

5. BBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (19 shows)

2. Acast (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. BBC (9 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	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
8	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
9	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
10	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
11	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
13	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
14	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
17	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
18	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
19	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
20	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
21	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
22	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
23	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
24	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
25	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
26	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
27	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
28	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
29	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
30	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
31	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
32	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
33	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
34	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
35	Africville Forever	Podstarter Productions / Frequency Podcast Network	Society & Culture	13	Simplecast	59
36	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
37	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
38	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
39	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
40	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
41	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
42	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
43	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
44	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
45	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
46	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
47	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
48	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
49	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
50	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
51	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
52	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
53	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
54	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
55	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
56	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
57	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
58	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
59	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
60	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
61	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
62	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
63	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
64	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
65	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
66	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
67	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
68	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
69	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
70	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
71	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
72	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
73	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
74	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
75	Curious Tourism: Responsible Travel Podcast	Erin Elizabeth Hynes of Pina Travels	Society & Culture	158	Audioboom	47
76	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
77	Jay Shetty - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	76	Spreaker	69
78	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
79	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
80	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
81	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
82	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
83	Le Poids du Cloud	Victor Galarreta	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	69
84	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
85	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
86	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
87	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
88	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
89	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
90	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
91	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83
92	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
93	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
94	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
95	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
96	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
97	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
98	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
99	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
100	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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