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 Sep 2026

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09/22/2026

Average data

Episodes: 146

Frequency: every 25 days

Duration: 00:45:53

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. The Guardian (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Simplecast (10 shows)

4. BBC (10 shows)

5. Omny Studio (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	69	Triton Digital	63
2	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	35	BBC	58
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	305	Megaphone	42
6	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	260	WideOrbit	48
7	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	351	ART19	68
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
11	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
12	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	434	Megaphone	32
13	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	192	Simplecast	58
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
16	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
17	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	700	Megaphone	53
18	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	264	Spreaker	69
19	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
20	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
21	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	139	N/A	N/A
22	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
23	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
24	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	73
25	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
26	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	302	WideOrbit	68
27	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
28	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	123	Simplecast	53
29	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
30	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
31	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
32	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
33	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	10	Acast	53
34	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
35	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
36	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
37	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
38	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
39	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	32	Simplecast	49
40	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
41	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
42	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
43	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
44	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
45	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
46	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
47	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
48	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
49	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
50	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
51	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	89	Libsyn	62
52	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
53	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
54	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
55	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	164	Spotify for Podcasters	28
56	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
57	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
58	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
59	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	349	Simplecast	78
60	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
61	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
62	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
63	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
64	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
65	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
66	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
67	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
68	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	373	Audion	58
69	My Brother David	iHeartMedia	Society & Culture	1	Omny Studio	59
70	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	226	Acast	43
71	History Well Told	Prime	Society & Culture	277	Spotify for Podcasters	28
72	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
73	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
74	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
75	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
76	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
77	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
78	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
79	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
80	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
81	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
82	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
83	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	442	Acast	74
84	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
85	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
86	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	21	ART19	73
87	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
88	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
89	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
90	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
91	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
92	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
93	Más Allá del Rosa	Jessica Fernández	Society & Culture	233	Acast	79
94	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
95	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	53	Audiomeans	73
96	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	77	Megaphone	62
97	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	73
98	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
99	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
100	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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