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 Jul 2026

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07/20/2026

Average data

Episodes: 132

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:42:18

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. CBC (4 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. BBC (10 shows)

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

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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