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 Jul 2026

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07/21/2026

Average data

Episodes: 137

Frequency: every 34 days

Duration: 00:42:56

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. CBC (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
2	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
5	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	162	Acast	43
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
10	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
12	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
13	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	273	WideOrbit	48
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
16	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
17	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
18	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
19	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
20	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
21	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
22	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
23	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
24	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
25	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
26	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
27	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
28	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
29	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
30	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
31	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
32	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
33	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
34	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
35	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
36	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
37	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
38	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
39	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
40	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
41	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
42	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
43	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
44	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
45	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
46	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
47	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
48	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
49	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
51	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
52	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
53	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
54	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
55	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
56	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
57	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
58	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
59	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
60	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
61	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
62	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
63	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
64	The Last Soviet	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	59
65	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
66	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
67	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
68	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
69	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
70	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
71	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
72	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
73	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
74	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
75	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1208	Acast	59
76	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
77	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
78	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
79	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
80	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	355	Simplecast	78
81	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
82	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
83	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	517	BBC	28
84	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
85	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
86	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
87	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
88	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
89	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
90	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	25	Captivate	73
91	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
92	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
93	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	Audiomeans	73
94	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
95	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
96	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
97	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
98	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
99	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	39	Omny Studio	83
100	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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