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 22 Apr 2026

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04/22/2026

Average data

Episodes: 133

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:45:20

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

5. CBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (18 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. ART19 (6 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	22	Omny Studio	73
3	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	308	Megaphone	42
6	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	26	Spreaker	84
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
11	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
13	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	437	Megaphone	32
18	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
19	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
20	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
21	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
22	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
23	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
24	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
25	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
26	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
27	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
28	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
29	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
30	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	71	Triton Digital	63
31	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
32	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	105	BBC	38
33	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
34	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	266	Spreaker	69
35	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
36	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	76	Spreaker	43
37	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
38	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
39	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
40	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
41	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	702	Megaphone	53
42	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
43	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
44	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
45	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
46	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
47	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
48	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
49	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
50	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
51	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
52	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
53	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	377	Audion	58
54	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
55	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
56	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
57	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
58	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
59	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
60	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
61	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
62	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
63	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
64	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
65	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
66	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
67	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	163	Omny Studio	69
68	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
69	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
70	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
71	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
72	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
73	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
74	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
75	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
76	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
77	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
78	MIS(TER)GENDERED	Sar White	Society & Culture	6	Buzzsprout	58
79	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
80	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
81	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
82	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
83	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
84	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
85	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
86	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
87	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
88	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
89	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	55	Audiomeans	73
90	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
91	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
92	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
93	Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement \| Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation	Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan	Society & Culture	375	Blubrry Podcasting	43
94	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	526	Spreaker	43
95	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
96	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
97	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
98	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
99	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
100	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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