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 18 Feb 2026

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02/18/2026

Average data

Episodes: 166

Frequency: every 40 days

Duration: 00:47:28

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

5. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (19 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
2	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
5	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
6	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
8	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
10	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
11	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
13	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
14	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
17	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
18	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
19	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
20	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
21	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
22	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
23	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
24	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
25	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
26	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
27	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
28	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
29	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
30	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
31	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
32	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
33	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
34	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
35	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
36	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
37	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
38	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
39	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
40	Africville Forever	Podstarter Productions / Frequency Podcast Network	Society & Culture	13	Simplecast	59
41	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
42	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
43	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
44	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
45	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
46	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
47	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
48	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
49	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
50	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
51	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
52	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
53	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
54	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
55	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
56	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
57	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
58	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
59	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
60	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
61	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
62	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
63	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
64	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
65	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
66	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
67	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
68	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
69	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
70	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
71	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
72	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
73	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
74	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
75	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
76	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
77	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
78	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
79	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
80	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
81	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
82	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
83	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
84	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
85	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
86	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
87	Kurzgesagt Podcast: Science Revealed	Lynn Studio	Society & Culture	122	Acast	43
88	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
89	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	The Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	47	Podbean	58
90	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
91	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
92	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
93	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
94	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
95	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
96	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
97	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
98	JOURNEY	Ryan Wolf	Society & Culture	13	Acast	73
99	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
100	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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