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 30 Apr 2026

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04/30/2026

Average data

Episodes: 130

Frequency: every 40 days

Duration: 00:46:08

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

4. Audible Original (2 shows)

5. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
2	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
3	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
7	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
8	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
10	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
11	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	70	Acast	83
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
16	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
17	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	27	American Public Media	62
18	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	15	BBC	63
19	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	442	Acast	53
20	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
21	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
22	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	128	BBC	38
23	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
24	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
25	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
26	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
27	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	143	N/A	N/A
28	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
29	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
30	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
31	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
32	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
33	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
34	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
35	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
36	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
37	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	25	RSS.com	58
38	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
39	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
40	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
41	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
42	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
43	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
44	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
45	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
46	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
47	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
48	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
49	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
50	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
51	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
52	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
53	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	708	Megaphone	53
54	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
55	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
56	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
57	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
58	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
59	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
60	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
61	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	451	Acast	74
62	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
63	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
64	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
65	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
66	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	386	Audion	58
67	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
68	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
69	Migrating to America: A Dream Worth Dying For	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	48
70	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
71	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	29	Acast	78
72	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
73	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
74	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
75	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
76	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
77	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
78	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
79	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
80	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
81	MIS(TER)GENDERED	Sar White	Society & Culture	6	Buzzsprout	58
82	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	Audiomeans	73
83	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
84	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
85	Delayland – Germany and the Missing Magic	DW	Society & Culture	24	Unknown	48
86	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
87	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
88	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
89	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
90	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
91	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
92	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
93	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
94	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
95	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	113	Ximalaya	59
96	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
97	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
98	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
99	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
100	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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