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 25 Apr 2026

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04/25/2026

Average data

Episodes: 133

Frequency: every 42 days

Duration: 00:46:42

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

3. BBC World Service (2 shows)

4. CBC (2 shows)

5. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Omny Studio (16 shows)

3. Megaphone (15 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: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
4	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
9	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
11	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
13	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
14	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
17	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
19	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
20	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
21	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
22	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
23	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
24	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
25	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
26	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
27	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
28	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
29	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
30	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
31	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
32	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
33	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
34	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
35	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
36	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
37	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
38	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
39	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
40	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
41	Confessions of an Elite Athlete with Midge Purce	Vox Media	Sports	2	Megaphone	48
42	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
43	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
44	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
45	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
46	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
47	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
48	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
49	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
50	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
51	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
52	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
53	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
54	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
55	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
56	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
57	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
58	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
59	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
60	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
61	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
62	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
63	MIS(TER)GENDERED	Sar White	Society & Culture	6	Buzzsprout	58
64	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
65	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
66	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
67	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
68	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
69	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
70	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
71	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
72	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
73	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
74	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
75	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
76	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
77	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
78	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
79	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
80	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
81	Unmaking the Prison Image	Visualizing Abolition	Society & Culture	4	Unknown	68
82	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
83	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
84	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
85	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
86	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
87	Bitter Blood: Kasem V Kasem	Audible Originals	Society & Culture	9	ART19	53
88	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
89	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
90	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	110	Ximalaya	59
91	Where Is John's Daughter?	Jamie & Natalie	Society & Culture	10	Unknown	63
92	Saving Apollo 13 👨‍🚀	Forensic Engineer Sean Brady — from Brady Heywood	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	69
93	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
94	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
95	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
96	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
97	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
98	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
99	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
100	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	15	Acast	90

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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