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 28 Feb 2026

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02/28/2026

Average data

Episodes: 153

Frequency: every 42 days

Duration: 00:45:41

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. CBC (4 shows)

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

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. PRX (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	69	Triton Digital	63
2	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
3	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	303	Megaphone	42
4	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
5	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	938	Simplecast	38
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	156	Acast	43
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
9	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	97	BBC	53
10	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
11	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
13	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
14	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	378	Audioboom	62
15	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
16	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	48	Megaphone	48
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	141	Megaphone	68
18	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
19	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
20	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
21	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
22	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
23	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
24	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
25	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	432	Megaphone	32
26	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
27	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
28	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	212	Megaphone	38
29	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
30	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
31	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
32	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
33	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
34	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
35	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	262	Spreaker	69
36	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	698	Megaphone	53
37	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
38	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
39	Africville Forever	Podstarter Productions / Frequency Podcast Network	Society & Culture	13	Simplecast	59
40	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
41	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
42	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
43	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
44	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	440	Acast	74
45	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
46	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
47	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
48	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
49	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
50	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
51	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
52	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	353	Spotify for Podcasters	38
53	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
54	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	370	Audion	58
55	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
56	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
57	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	33	Omny Studio	83
58	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
59	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	188	Ximalaya	53
60	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
61	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
62	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
63	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
64	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
65	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
66	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
67	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
68	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
69	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
70	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
71	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
72	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	149	Spotify for Podcasters	52
73	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1190	Acast	59
74	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	69	Spreaker	43
75	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
76	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
77	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
78	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
79	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
80	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
81	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
82	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
83	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
84	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
85	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
86	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
87	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	94	Acast	79
88	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
89	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
90	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
91	Mallen Baker: Faultlines	Mallen Baker	Society & Culture	599	Simplecast	63
92	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
93	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
94	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
95	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
96	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	122	Simplecast	53
97	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
98	Sorry About The Kid	CBC	Society & Culture	6	Triton Digital	53
99	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	93	WideOrbit	68
100	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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