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 Apr 2026

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04/23/2026

Average data

Episodes: 132

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:44:28

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. Audible Original (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. BBC (8 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	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
3	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
11	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
12	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
13	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
16	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
17	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	15	BBC	63
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
19	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
20	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
21	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
22	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
23	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
24	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
25	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
26	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
27	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
28	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
29	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
30	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
31	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
32	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
33	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
34	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
35	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	129	BBC	38
36	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
37	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
38	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
39	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
40	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
41	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
42	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
43	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
44	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
45	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
46	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
47	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
48	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
49	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
50	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
51	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
52	MIS(TER)GENDERED	Sar White	Society & Culture	6	Buzzsprout	58
53	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
54	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
55	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
56	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
57	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
58	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
59	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
60	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
61	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
62	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
63	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
64	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
65	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
66	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
67	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
68	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
69	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
70	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
71	My Brother David	iHeartMedia	Society & Culture	1	Omny Studio	59
72	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
73	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
74	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
75	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
76	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
77	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
78	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
79	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
80	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
81	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
82	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
83	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
84	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
85	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
86	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
87	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
88	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	Audiomeans	73
89	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	173	Spotify for Podcasters	28
90	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
91	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
92	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
93	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	530	Spreaker	43
94	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	106	Acast	73
95	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
96	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
97	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
98	Unmaking the Prison Image	Visualizing Abolition	Society & Culture	4	Unknown	68
99	Our Common Nature	WNYC	Society & Culture	8	Simplecast	69
100	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

The podcast landscape in Canada is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

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