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 21 Mar 2026

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03/21/2026

Average data

Episodes: 160

Frequency: every 37 days

Duration: 00:44:52

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. The Observer (2 shows)

3. CBC (2 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (18 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. Simplecast (6 shows)

5. PRX (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
2	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	352	ART19	68
10	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
11	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
12	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
16	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
17	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
18	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
19	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	73
20	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
21	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
22	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
23	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
24	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
25	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
26	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
27	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
28	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
29	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
30	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
31	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
32	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
33	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
34	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
35	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
36	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	430	Acast	53
37	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
38	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
39	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
40	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
41	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
42	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	442	Acast	74
43	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
44	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
45	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
46	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
47	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	150	Spotify for Podcasters	52
48	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
49	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
50	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
51	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
52	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
53	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
54	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
55	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
56	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	89	Libsyn	62
57	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	94	WideOrbit	68
58	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
59	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
60	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	373	Audion	58
61	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
62	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
63	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	342	Acast	64
64	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
65	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
66	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
67	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
68	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	35	BBC	58
69	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
70	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
71	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
72	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
73	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
74	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	494	RedCircle	43
75	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
76	锵锵三人行 (98-10年)	锵粉	Society & Culture	398	Spotify for Podcasters	33
77	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
78	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
79	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
80	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
81	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
82	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
83	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
84	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
85	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
86	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
87	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
88	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
89	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
90	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
91	Admissible: Shreds of Evidence	VPM & Story Mechanics	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	53
92	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
93	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
94	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
95	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
96	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	704	Omny Studio	53
97	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
98	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
99	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
100	Prince Andrew - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	62	Spreaker	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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