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 20 Feb 2026

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02/20/2026

Average data

Episodes: 144

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:45:07

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
2	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
7	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
9	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
10	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
11	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
13	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
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	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
18	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
19	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
20	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
21	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
22	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
23	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
24	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
25	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
26	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
27	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	271	PRX	43
28	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
29	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
30	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
31	Africville Forever	Podstarter Productions / Frequency Podcast Network	Society & Culture	13	Simplecast	59
32	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
33	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
34	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
35	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
36	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
37	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
38	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
39	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	110	Ximalaya	59
40	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
41	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
42	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
43	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
44	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
45	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
46	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
47	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
48	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
49	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
50	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
51	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
52	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
53	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
54	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
55	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
56	Hidden Derbyshire - Landscapes of Time	Nine Ladies Productions	History	12	RedCircle	53
57	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
58	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
59	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
60	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
61	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
62	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
63	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
64	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
65	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
66	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
67	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
68	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
69	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
70	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
71	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
72	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
73	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
74	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
75	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
76	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
77	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
78	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
79	Sorry About The Kid	CBC	Society & Culture	6	Triton Digital	53
80	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
81	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
82	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
83	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
84	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
85	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
86	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
87	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
88	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
89	Jay Shetty - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	76	Spreaker	69
90	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
91	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
92	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
93	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
94	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
95	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
96	Des histoires qui résonnent : le Balado des proches aidants - animé par Marina Orsini Details temporarily unavailable	Des histoires qui résonnent : le Balado des proches aidants - Animé par Marina Orsini	Society & Culture	45	Audioboom	68
97	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
98	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
99	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
100	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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