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 sept. 2026

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09/20/2026

Average data

Episodes: 159

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:45:38

Top 5 authors

1. The Guardian (2 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. BBC (8 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. Omny Studio (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	938	Simplecast	38
2	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	33	BBC	58
3	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	303	Megaphone	42
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	156	Acast	43
6	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
9	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	259	WideOrbit	48
10	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
11	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	432	Megaphone	32
12	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	141	Megaphone	68
13	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	94	Acast	79
14	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	97	BBC	53
15	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	48	Megaphone	48
16	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	64	Acast	83
17	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
18	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	135	N/A	N/A
19	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	190	Simplecast	58
20	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
21	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	212	Megaphone	38
22	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
23	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
24	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
25	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	698	Megaphone	53
26	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	69	Triton Digital	63
27	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	262	Spreaker	69
28	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
29	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	83	Unknown	63
30	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
31	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
32	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
33	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
34	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
35	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
36	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
37	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
38	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	122	Simplecast	53
39	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
40	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
41	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	10	Acast	53
42	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
43	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
44	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	440	Acast	74
45	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
46	History Well Told	Prime	Society & Culture	277	RedCircle	53
47	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
48	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
49	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
50	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
51	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	301	WideOrbit	68
52	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
53	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	48
54	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
55	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
56	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	370	Audion	58
57	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1190	Acast	59
58	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	149	Spotify for Podcasters	52
59	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	33	Omny Studio	83
60	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
61	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	224	Acast	43
62	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
63	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
64	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
65	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
66	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
67	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	348	Simplecast	78
68	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	69	Spreaker	43
69	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
70	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
71	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
72	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
73	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
74	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
75	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	53
76	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
77	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
78	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	400	Buzzsprout	83
79	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
80	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
81	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
82	Les Mystères des lieux (externe) Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Culture	Documentary	29	N/A	N/A
83	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	57	Spreaker	68
84	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
85	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
86	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
87	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	523	Spreaker	43
88	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
89	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
90	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	162	Spotify for Podcasters	28
91	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
92	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
93	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
94	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
95	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
96	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
97	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
98	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	93	WideOrbit	68
99	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	76	Megaphone	62
100	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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