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 24 Jan 2026

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01/24/2026

Average data

Episodes: 174

Frequency: every 244 days

Duration: 00:47:02

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

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

4. Forbidden Knowledge Network (2 shows)

5. BBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. PRX (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	409	Megaphone	63
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	941	Simplecast	38
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	21	Spreaker	84
6	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	376	Audioboom	62
7	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
8	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
9	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	159	Acast	43
10	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	118	Acast	73
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	354	ART19	68
12	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
13	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	310	Megaphone	42
14	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	23	RSS.com	52
15	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	144	Megaphone	68
17	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
18	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
19	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	100	BBC	53
20	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
21	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	48
22	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
23	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	439	Megaphone	32
24	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
25	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	99	Acast	79
26	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	215	Megaphone	38
27	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
28	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
29	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
30	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
31	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
32	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	446	Acast	74
33	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	112	BBC	38
34	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
35	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
36	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
37	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	704	Megaphone	53
38	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
39	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
40	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
41	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	164	Acast	69
42	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	190	Ximalaya	53
43	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
44	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
45	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
46	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
47	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
48	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1199	Acast	59
49	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
50	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	191	PRX	79
51	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
52	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
53	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
54	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	282	Megaphone	43
55	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
56	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	211	Acast	79
57	Autre perspective	Kollectif	Society & Culture	12	Acast	89
58	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
59	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
60	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
61	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
62	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
63	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
64	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	51	RedCircle	63
65	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
66	The Palisades Fire: A Sandcastles Special	Wave Maker Media	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
67	Histoires lesbiennes	Marine GILIS	Society & Culture	11	Acast	79
68	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
69	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
70	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	91	Libsyn	62
71	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
72	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	435	Acast	53
73	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
74	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
75	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
76	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
77	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
78	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
79	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
80	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
81	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	168	Spotify for Podcasters	28
82	Soothing History for Sleep	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	18	Podbean	58
83	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	380	Audion	58
84	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
85	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
86	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
87	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	79	Megaphone	62
88	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
89	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
90	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
91	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
92	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	414	BBC	28
93	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	152	Spotify for Podcasters	52
94	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
95	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
96	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
97	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	49	Omny Studio	48
98	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
99	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
100	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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