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 Oct 2026

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10/18/2026

Average data

Episodes: 156

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:44:05

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (4 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (12 shows)

3. ART19 (8 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	79
2	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
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	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	311	Megaphone	42
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	268	WideOrbit	48
9	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	160	Acast	43
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	52	Megaphone	48
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	356	ART19	68
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
14	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	12	Acast	53
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
16	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
17	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	441	Megaphone	32
19	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	68	Acast	83
20	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	195	Simplecast	58
21	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	15	PRX	69
22	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
23	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	119	BBC	38
24	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
25	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	24	RSS.com	58
26	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	116	Acast	73
27	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
28	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	136	N/A	N/A
29	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
30	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
31	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
32	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	217	Megaphone	38
33	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
34	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
35	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	269	Spreaker	69
36	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	88	Unknown	63
37	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
38	Deep Secrets	NOTHING TO SEE HERE INC	Society & Culture	6	RedCircle	69
39	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
40	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	706	Megaphone	53
41	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	25	ART19	73
42	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
43	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
44	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
45	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	53	RedCircle	73
46	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
47	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	50	Omny Studio	48
48	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
49	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
50	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	305	WideOrbit	68
51	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	6	PRX	59
52	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
53	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
54	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
55	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
56	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	212	Acast	79
57	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
58	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
59	The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	3	ART19	58
60	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
61	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	80	Megaphone	62
62	Unquiet Realities	Winchester	Society & Culture	8	RedCircle	79
63	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	24	Captivate	73
64	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	448	Acast	74
65	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
66	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
67	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
68	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	58	Audiomeans	73
69	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	232	Acast	43
70	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	383	Audion	58
71	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	53
72	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
73	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	26	Acast	83
74	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
75	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	710	Omny Studio	53
76	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
77	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
78	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
79	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
80	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	170	Spotify for Podcasters	28
81	Sorry About The Kid	CBC	Society & Culture	6	Triton Digital	53
82	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
83	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
84	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	153	Spotify for Podcasters	52
85	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
86	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
87	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
88	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
89	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	126	Simplecast	53
90	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
91	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1202	Acast	59
92	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
93	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	37	Omny Studio	83
94	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	275	Megaphone	32
95	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	353	Simplecast	78
96	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
97	老高和小茉最新更新	老高与小茉高速更新	Society & Culture	460	Ximalaya	39
98	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	104	Acast	73
99	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
100	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	415	BBC	28

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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