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 Jun 2026

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06/15/2026

Average data

Episodes: 172

Frequency: every 35 days

Duration: 00:45:28

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. BBC (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
3	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	312	Megaphone	42
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	160	Acast	43
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	357	ART19	68
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
10	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
11	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
12	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	441	Megaphone	32
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
15	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
16	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	25	ART19	73
17	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	69	Acast	83
18	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
19	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
20	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
21	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	139	N/A	N/A
22	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	54	Megaphone	48
23	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
24	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
25	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	125	Buzzsprout	53
26	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
27	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
28	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	123	BBC	38
29	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	270	Spreaker	69
30	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
31	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	27	American Public Media	62
32	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	12	Acast	53
33	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
34	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
35	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	25	RSS.com	58
36	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
37	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	89	Unknown	63
38	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
39	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
40	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
41	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	707	Megaphone	53
42	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
43	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	63
44	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
45	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
46	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
47	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
48	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
49	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
50	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
51	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
52	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
53	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
54	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	154	Spotify for Podcasters	52
55	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
56	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
57	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	384	Audion	58
58	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	450	Acast	74
59	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
60	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
61	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
62	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	93	Libsyn	62
63	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
64	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
65	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
66	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
67	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
68	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
69	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
70	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
71	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
72	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
73	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
74	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	353	Simplecast	78
75	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
76	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
77	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	233	Acast	43
78	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
79	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	171	Spotify for Podcasters	28
80	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
81	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1204	Acast	59
82	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
83	Everyday Abundance: The hidden stories behind everyday technologies	Virginia Postrel and Charles C. Mann	Society & Culture	8	Castos	52
84	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	98	WideOrbit	68
85	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	357	Spotify for Podcasters	38
86	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
87	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
88	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	500	RedCircle	43
89	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	168	Omny Studio	69
90	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
91	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
92	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
93	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
94	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
95	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	28	Acast	83
96	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	80	Megaphone	62
97	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
98	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	8	PRX	69
99	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
100	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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