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 Jul 2026

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07/28/2026

Average data

Episodes: 134

Frequency: every 35 days

Duration: 00:43:21

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (5 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

5. Audible Original (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (26 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. BBC (7 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
2	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
5	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	162	Acast	43
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
10	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
11	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
12	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
15	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
16	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
17	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
18	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	273	WideOrbit	48
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
20	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
21	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
22	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
23	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
24	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
25	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
26	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
27	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
28	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
29	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
30	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
31	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
32	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
33	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
34	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
35	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
36	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
37	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
38	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
39	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
40	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
41	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
42	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
43	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
44	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
45	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
46	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
47	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
48	Blue square \| مربع آبی	Raad charity	Society & Culture	4	Acast	73
49	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
50	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
51	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
52	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
53	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
54	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
55	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
56	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
57	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
58	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
59	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
60	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
61	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
62	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1208	Acast	59
63	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
64	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
65	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
66	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
67	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
68	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
69	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
70	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	107	Acast	73
71	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
72	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
73	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
74	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
75	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
76	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
77	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
78	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
79	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
80	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
81	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
82	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
83	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
84	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
85	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
86	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
87	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
88	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
89	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
90	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
91	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	39	Omny Studio	83
92	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
93	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
94	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
95	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
96	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
97	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
98	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
99	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
100	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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