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 Dec 2025

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12/28/2025

Average data

Episodes: 174

Frequency: every 245 days

Duration: 00:45:18

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

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

3. audiochuck (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. CBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
2	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
3	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
4	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
5	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
9	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	352	ART19	68
11	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
12	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
15	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
17	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
19	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
20	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	430	Acast	53
21	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
22	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
23	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
24	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
25	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
26	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
27	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
28	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
29	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
30	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
31	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
32	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
33	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
34	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
35	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
36	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
37	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
38	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
39	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	48
40	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
41	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
42	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
43	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
44	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	373	Audion	58
45	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
46	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	35	BBC	58
47	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
48	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
49	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
50	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
51	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
52	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
53	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
54	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
55	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	164	Spotify for Podcasters	28
56	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
57	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
58	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
59	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
60	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
61	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
62	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
63	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
64	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
65	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
66	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
67	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
68	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
69	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
70	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
71	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
72	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
73	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
74	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
75	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	89	Libsyn	62
76	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
77	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
78	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
79	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
80	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	43	Omny Studio	53
81	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
82	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
83	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
84	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	442	Acast	74
85	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
86	Trial by Shelter: Speaking back to the war on the unhoused	Voices Collective	Society & Culture	4	Libsyn	58
87	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
88	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
89	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
90	Howard Stern - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	62	Spreaker	69
91	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
92	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	644	Acast	69
93	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
94	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
95	Adrfit	The Adrift Podcast	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	43
96	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	161	Omny Studio	69
97	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
98	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
99	Visionaries	unknown_author	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	48
100	La familia correcta	El País Audio / WePod	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	84

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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