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 Sep 2026

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09/28/2026

Average data

Episodes: 172

Frequency: every 37 days

Duration: 00:42:59

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. Simplecast (8 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Omny Studio (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
2	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	35	BBC	58
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
4	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	352	ART19	68
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
6	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
9	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
10	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
12	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
13	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
15	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
16	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
17	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
18	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	192	Simplecast	58
19	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
20	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
21	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
22	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
23	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
24	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
25	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
26	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
27	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
28	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
29	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
30	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
31	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
32	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
33	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
34	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	136	N/A	N/A
35	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
36	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
37	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
38	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
39	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
40	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
41	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	302	WideOrbit	68
42	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
43	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
44	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
45	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
46	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
47	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
48	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
49	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
50	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
51	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
52	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
53	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
54	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
55	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
56	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	349	Simplecast	78
57	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
58	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	442	Acast	74
59	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
60	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
61	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
62	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
63	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
64	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
65	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
66	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
68	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
69	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
70	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
71	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
72	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	77	Megaphone	62
73	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	10	Acast	53
74	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
75	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
76	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
77	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	89	Libsyn	62
78	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	226	Acast	43
79	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	164	Spotify for Podcasters	28
80	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	373	Audion	58
81	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	494	RedCircle	43
82	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	73
83	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	73
84	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
85	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
86	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
87	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
88	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
89	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
90	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
91	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
92	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	150	Spotify for Podcasters	52
93	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
94	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	3	PRX	59
95	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
96	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
97	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
98	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
99	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
100	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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