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 19 Jul 2026

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07/19/2026

Average data

Episodes: 137

Frequency: every 34 days

Duration: 00:43:09

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. The Guardian (2 shows)

5. CBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
4	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
8	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
12	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
13	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
14	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
15	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
17	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
18	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	272	WideOrbit	48
19	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
20	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
21	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
22	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
23	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
24	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
25	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
26	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
27	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
28	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
29	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
30	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
31	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
32	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
33	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
34	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
35	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
36	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
37	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
38	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
39	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
40	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
41	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
42	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
43	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
44	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
45	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
47	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
48	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
49	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
50	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
51	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
52	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
53	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
54	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
55	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
56	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
57	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
58	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
59	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
60	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
61	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
62	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
63	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
64	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
65	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
66	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
67	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
68	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
69	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
70	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
71	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
72	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
73	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
74	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
75	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
76	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
77	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
78	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
79	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
80	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
81	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
82	Getting Free	International Beit Din	Society & Culture	7	Podbean	63
83	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
84	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
85	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
86	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
87	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	236	Acast	43
88	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
89	Kalaf	Mohsen Khodabakhshi	Society & Culture	8	Podbean	42
90	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
91	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
92	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
93	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	43
94	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
95	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
96	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
97	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
98	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
99	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
100	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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