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 Mar 2026

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03/18/2026

Average data

Episodes: 146

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:45:56

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. CBC (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. BBC (7 shows)

5. Spreaker (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
2	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
3	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
6	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
7	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
8	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
10	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
14	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
15	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
17	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
18	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
19	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
20	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
21	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
22	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
23	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
24	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
25	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
26	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
27	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
28	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
29	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
30	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
31	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
32	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
33	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
34	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
35	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
36	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
37	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
38	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
39	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
40	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
41	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
42	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
43	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
44	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
45	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
46	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
47	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
48	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
49	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
50	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
51	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
52	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
53	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
54	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
55	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
56	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
57	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
58	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
59	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
60	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
61	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
62	Uncovering Roots	Uncovering Roots	Society & Culture	14	Buzzsprout	58
63	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
64	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
65	Une sur dix	Pivot	Society & Culture	6	Spreaker	64
66	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
67	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
68	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
69	Al Jazeera English	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	49
70	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
71	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
72	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
73	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
74	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
75	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
76	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
77	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
78	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
79	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
80	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
81	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
82	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
83	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
84	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
85	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
86	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
87	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
88	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	73
89	Le genou à terre	Diffusion Alternative	Society & Culture	26	Acast	53
90	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
91	Where Is John's Daughter?	Jamie & Natalie	Society & Culture	10	Unknown	63
92	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
93	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
94	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
95	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
96	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	17	Acast	90
97	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
98	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
99	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
100	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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