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 16 Jun 2026

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06/16/2026

Average data

Episodes: 166

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:45:12

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

4. Audible Original (2 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (15 shows)

4. ART19 (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	162	Acast	43
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
8	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
9	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
11	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
12	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
14	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	39	Omny Studio	83
15	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
16	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
18	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
19	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
20	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
21	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
22	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
23	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
24	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
25	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
26	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
27	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	127	Buzzsprout	53
28	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
29	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
30	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
31	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
32	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
33	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
34	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
35	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
36	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
37	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
38	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
39	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
40	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
41	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
42	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
43	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
44	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
45	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
46	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
47	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
48	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
49	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
50	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
51	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
52	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
53	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
54	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
55	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
56	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
57	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
58	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
59	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
60	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
61	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
62	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
63	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
64	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
65	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
66	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
67	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
68	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
69	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
70	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
71	Bitter Blood: Kasem V Kasem	Audible Originals	Society & Culture	9	ART19	53
72	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
73	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
74	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1208	Acast	59
75	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
76	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
77	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
78	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
79	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	237	Acast	43
80	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
81	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
82	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
83	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	82	Megaphone	62
84	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
85	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
86	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
87	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
88	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
89	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
90	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
91	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
92	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
93	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	175	Spotify for Podcasters	28
94	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
95	Al Jazeera English	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	12	Spreaker	43
96	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
97	The Palisades Fire: A Sandcastles Special	Wave Maker Media	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
98	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
99	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	507	RedCircle	43
100	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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