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 Oct 2026

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10/17/2026

Average data

Episodes: 145

Frequency: every 31 days

Duration: 00:44:05

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

4. TTT Media (2 shows)

5. BBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. ART19 (8 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. BBC (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
2	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	79
3	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	942	Simplecast	38
5	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
6	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	267	WideOrbit	48
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	159	Acast	43
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	356	ART19	68
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	310	Megaphone	42
11	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	12	Acast	53
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	100	BBC	53
14	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	52	Megaphone	48
15	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
16	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
17	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	15	PRX	69
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	144	Megaphone	68
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	440	Megaphone	32
20	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	68	Acast	83
21	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
22	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	117	BBC	38
23	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	24	RSS.com	58
24	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	195	Simplecast	58
25	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
26	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
27	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
28	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
29	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	217	Megaphone	38
30	Deep Secrets	NOTHING TO SEE HERE INC	Society & Culture	6	RedCircle	69
31	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	137	N/A	N/A
32	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
33	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
34	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	88	Unknown	63
35	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
36	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
37	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	52	RedCircle	73
38	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
39	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
40	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
41	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
42	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	24	ART19	73
43	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
44	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
45	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	212	Acast	79
46	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	50	Omny Studio	48
47	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
48	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
49	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
50	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	305	WideOrbit	68
51	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
52	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	88	Spreaker	43
53	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	24	Captivate	73
54	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
55	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
56	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
57	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
58	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
59	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
60	The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	3	ART19	58
61	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
62	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
63	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	6	PRX	59
64	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	448	Acast	74
65	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
66	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	53
67	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	37	Omny Studio	83
68	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
69	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
70	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
71	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
72	Unquiet Realities	Winchester	Society & Culture	8	RedCircle	79
73	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
74	Paranoid American	Thomas Gorence	Society & Culture	408	Spreaker	43
75	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	191	Ximalaya	53
76	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
77	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
78	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
79	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
80	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
81	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
82	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	232	Acast	43
83	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
84	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
85	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	104	Acast	73
86	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
87	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
88	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
89	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	126	Simplecast	53
90	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	153	Spotify for Podcasters	52
91	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
92	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
93	Revisiting The Gay Life	David Boyer	Society & Culture	15	PRX	79
94	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
95	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
96	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	382	Audion	58
97	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	79	Megaphone	62
98	SAS: The Shadow War	The Independent / Aurra Studios	Society & Culture	5	Acast	69
99	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
100	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	57	Audiomeans	73

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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