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 Jun 2026

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06/21/2026

Average data

Episodes: 172

Frequency: every 34 days

Duration: 00:44:06

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Omny Studio (15 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. ART19 (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
7	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
10	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
11	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
12	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
13	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
14	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
15	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
17	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
18	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
19	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
20	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
21	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
22	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
23	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
24	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
25	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
26	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	137	N/A	N/A
27	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
28	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
29	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
30	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
31	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
32	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
33	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
34	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
35	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
36	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
37	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway Details temporarily unavailable	Sky News	Society & Culture	10	Captivate	42
38	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
39	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
40	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
41	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
42	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
43	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
44	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
45	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
46	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	443	Acast	74
47	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
48	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	373	Audion	58
49	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
50	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	36	BBC	58
51	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
52	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
53	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
54	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
55	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
56	Le genou à terre	Diffusion Alternative	Society & Culture	26	Acast	53
57	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
58	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	226	Acast	43
59	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	94	WideOrbit	68
60	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
61	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
62	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
63	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
64	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
65	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
66	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
67	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
68	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
69	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
70	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
71	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
72	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
73	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
74	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
75	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	11	Acast	53
76	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
77	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
78	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
79	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
80	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
81	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
82	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
83	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	349	Simplecast	78
84	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
85	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
86	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
87	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
88	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
89	Sorry About The Kid	CBC	Society & Culture	6	Triton Digital	53
90	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
91	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	494	RedCircle	43
92	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
93	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
94	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
95	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
96	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
97	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
98	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	164	Spotify for Podcasters	28
99	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
100	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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