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 23 Feb 2026

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02/23/2026

Average data

Episodes: 146

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:46:19

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (18 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. PRX (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
2	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
3	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
6	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
9	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
10	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
11	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
13	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
14	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
16	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
17	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
18	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
19	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
20	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
21	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
22	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
23	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
24	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
25	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
26	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
27	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
28	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
29	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
30	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
31	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
32	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
33	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
34	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
35	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
36	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
37	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
38	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
39	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
40	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
41	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
42	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	110	Ximalaya	59
43	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
44	Africville Forever	Podstarter Productions / Frequency Podcast Network	Society & Culture	13	Simplecast	59
45	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
46	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	271	PRX	43
47	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
48	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
49	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
50	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
51	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
52	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
53	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
54	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
55	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
56	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
57	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
58	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
59	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
60	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
61	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
62	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
63	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
64	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
65	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
66	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
67	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
68	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
69	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
70	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
71	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
72	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
73	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
74	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
75	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
76	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
77	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
78	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
79	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
80	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
81	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
82	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
83	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
84	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	The Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	47	Podbean	58
85	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
86	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
87	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
88	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
89	Garde-Manger	QUB radio	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	63
90	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
91	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
92	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
93	Des histoires qui résonnent : le Balado des proches aidants - animé par Marina Orsini Details temporarily unavailable	Des histoires qui résonnent : le Balado des proches aidants - Animé par Marina Orsini	Society & Culture	45	Audioboom	68
94	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
95	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
96	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
97	Call Bethel	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	6	Acast	53
98	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
99	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
100	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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