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 17 Jun 2026

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06/17/2026

Average data

Episodes: 164

Frequency: every 37 days

Duration: 00:45:53

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

5. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. ART19 (8 shows)

5. BBC (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
2	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	162	Acast	43
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
4	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	359	ART19	68
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	315	Megaphone	42
6	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	23	Spreaker	84
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	445	Megaphone	32
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
10	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
11	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
12	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
13	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	273	WideOrbit	48
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	118	Acast	73
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
17	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	39	Omny Studio	83
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	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
22	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	72	Acast	83
23	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	133	BBC	38
24	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
25	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
26	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
27	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	149	N/A	N/A
28	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	272	Spreaker	69
29	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
30	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	220	Megaphone	38
31	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
32	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
33	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
34	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	27	ART19	73
35	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	102	BBC	53
36	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	127	Buzzsprout	53
37	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	453	Acast	74
38	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
39	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	710	Megaphone	53
40	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
41	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
42	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	95	Libsyn	62
43	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
44	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	63
45	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	374	Omny Studio	73
46	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
47	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
48	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
49	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	286	Megaphone	43
50	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
51	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
52	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
53	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
54	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
55	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
56	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
57	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
58	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
59	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
60	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
61	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
62	Bitter Blood: Kasem V Kasem	Audible Originals	Society & Culture	9	ART19	53
63	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
64	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
65	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
66	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	389	Audion	58
67	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
68	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
69	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
70	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
71	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
72	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
73	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
74	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	55	RedCircle	73
75	The Compendium: An Assembly of Fascinating Things	Strange True Stories with Kyle Risi & Adam Cox	Society & Culture	150	Simplecast	73
76	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
77	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
78	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
79	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
80	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
81	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
82	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1208	Acast	59
83	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
84	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	31	Acast	83
85	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
86	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	107	Acast	73
87	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
88	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	175	Spotify for Podcasters	28
89	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
90	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
91	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
92	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
93	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
94	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	63	Libsyn	42
95	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
96	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	507	RedCircle	43
97	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
98	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
99	The Palisades Fire: A Sandcastles Special	Wave Maker Media	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
100	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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