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 May 2026

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05/21/2026

Average data

Episodes: 154

Frequency: every 23 days

Duration: 00:46:16

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

3. BBC World Service (2 shows)

4. CBC (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
2	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
5	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
6	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
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	302	Megaphone	42
9	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
10	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
11	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
12	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
13	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
14	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
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	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
18	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
19	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
20	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
21	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
22	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
23	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	9	Acast	43
24	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
25	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
26	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
27	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
28	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
29	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
30	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
31	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
32	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
33	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
34	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
35	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
36	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
37	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
38	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
39	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
40	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
41	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
42	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
43	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
44	A Shot At History	Fix The News	Society & Culture	4	Transistor	79
45	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
46	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
47	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
48	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
49	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
50	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
51	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
52	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
53	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
54	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
55	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
56	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
57	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
58	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
59	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
60	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
61	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
62	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
63	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
64	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
65	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
66	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	110	Ximalaya	59
67	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	19	Captivate	73
68	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
69	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
70	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
71	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
72	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
73	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
74	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
75	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
76	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
77	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
78	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
79	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
80	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
81	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
82	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
83	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
84	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
85	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
86	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
87	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
88	Queer Legends: An Oral History Podcast	Shawn Dearn	Society & Culture	31	Libsyn	68
89	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
90	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
91	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
92	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
93	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
94	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
95	Cruising \| Queer History and Culture	Sarah Gabrielli, Rachel Karp, and Jennifer McGinity	Society & Culture	89	Buzzsprout	57
96	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
97	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
98	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
99	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
100	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79

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