Apple Podcast Rankings - Canada - Government

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 08 sept. 2025

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09/08/2025

Average data

Episodes: 294

Frequency: every 19 days

Duration: 00:40:32

Top 5 authors

1. Center for Strategic and International Studies (6 shows)

2. CSIS | Center for Strategic and International Studies (4 shows)

3. The DSR Network (3 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (22 shows)

2. Spotify for Podcasters (9 shows)

3. Simplecast (7 shows)

4. Unknown (7 shows)

5. Libsyn (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Strict Scrutiny	Strict Scrutiny	Government	435	Audioboom	63
2	Group Chat: Making Sense of Canada’s Democracy With a Few Friends	Samara Centre For Democracy	Government	11	Acast	63
3	Politics Is Broken	Brittlestar	Government	122	RSS.com	38
4	Pekingology	Center for Strategic and International Studies	Government	148	Megaphone	43
5	The Jerry Agar Show	iHeartRadio	Government	2000	Omny Studio	53
6	The Lawfare Podcast	The Lawfare Institute	Government	2000	Acast	53
7	5-4	Prologue Projects	Government	328	RedCircle	58
8	Fiasco	Pushkin Industries	Government	44	Omny Studio	69
9	The OShow with Laura Babcock	laura babcock	Government	215	Acast	89
10	Speaking Municipally	Taproot Edmonton	Government	376	Transistor	73
11	The Interview	BBC World Service	Government	1965	BBC	43
12	Deep State Radio	The DSR Network	Government	2000	Megaphone	49
13	The Tara Palmeri Show	Tara Palmeri	Government	308	Megaphone	63
14	The New Union Frontier / La nouvelle frontière syndicale	Customs and Immigration Union, Syndicat des Douanes et de l'Immigration	Government	8	Simplecast	53
15	Macroaggressions	Charlie Robinson	Government	902	RSS.com	42
16	Canadian Army Podcast	Canadian Army	Government	74	Transistor	72
17	In-House – Canada's Housing Podcast	Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation	Government	28	Buzzsprout	32
18	Capitalisn't	University of Chicago Podcast Network	Government	251	Simplecast	73
19	Nonpartisan Hacks	Joel Grenz and Sean Wood	Government	32	Unknown	59
20	Diabetes Canada Podcast	Diabetes Canada	Government	150	Blubrry	62
21	Rethinking Palestine	Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network	Government	71	Zencastr	32
22	The Fact Hunter	Delmarva Studios	Government	1000	Spreaker	43
23	Understanding Public Policy (in 1000 and 500 words)	Professor Paul Cairney	Government	34	Spotify for Podcasters	58
24	Sane(ish) with Jo Carducci	The Siren Network	Government	262	Megaphone	53
25	Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap up	Neil	Government	94	Buzzsprout	73
26	A Matter of Degrees	Dr. Leah Stokes, Dr. Katharine Wilkinson	Government	55	Libsyn	58
27	Our City, Our Podcast	City of Winnipeg	Government	31	Transistor	78
28	Irregular Warfare Podcast	Irregular Warfare Initiative	Government	166	Podbean	31
29	The Oath and The Office	Two Squared Media Productions	Government	84	Spreaker	54
30	RTL archives secrètes, François Mitterrand	RTL	Government	7	Audiomeans	43
31	Retraite Québec, le balado	Retraite Québec	Government	16	Buzzsprout	32
32	Inside the FBI Details temporarily unavailable	Official FBI	Government	120	N/A	N/A
33	State of Play	Center for Strategic and International Studies	Government	47	Megaphone	48
34	The World of Intelligence	Sean Corbett AVM (Retd)	Technology	135	Unknown	37
35	پوشه \| Pousheh	شنوتو \| Shenoto	Government	12	Unknown	59
36	Zohran Mamdani - Biography Flash	Inception Point AI	Government	124	Megaphone	63
37	Work with Purpose: A podcast about the Australian Public Sector	contentgroup	Government	184	Acast	73
38	Unidad para las Víctimas	Unidad Víctimas	Government	268	Spotify for Podcasters	43
39	Keluar Sekejap	Khairy Jamaluddin dan Shahril Hamdan	Government	255	Spotify for Podcasters	28
40	内部视角看中国	杜文	Government	11	Firstory	53
41	Country First Conversations	Adam Kinzinger	Government	20	Spotify for Podcasters	N/A
43	What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law	Roman Mars	Government	98	Simplecast	32
44	The First Sixteen	Agriculture and Agri-food Canada	Government	40	Transistor	53
45	Boom! Lawyered	Rewire News Group's Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy, Jessica Mason Pieklo - Rewire News Group, Imani Gandy - Rewire News Group	Government	314	Simplecast	73
46	Global Security Briefing	The Royal United Services Institute	Government	100	Libsyn	53
47	The Find Out Podcast	Find Out Media & Studio71	Government	143	Megaphone	48
48	Balade santé	Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux	Government	16	Unknown	53
49	Londongrad	Tortoise Media	Government	17	Acast	64
50	Off the Radar, Special Operations Training Detachment	Burro Team	Government	58	Spotify for Podcasters	38
51	The Truth of the Matter	CSIS \| Center for Strategic and International Studies	Government	372	Megaphone	49
52	The Trade Guys	CSIS \| Center for Strategic and International Studies	Government	368	Megaphone	43
53	PreAccident Investigation Podcast	Todd Conklin	Government & Organizations	600	Podbean	37
54	CIAJ In All Fairness - ICAJ En toute justice	CIAJ - ICAJ	Government	121	Libsyn	58
55	Optimist Economy	Kathryn Anne Edwards and Robin Rauzi	Government	68	PRX	83
56	For the Record with Daniel Fontaine & Paul Minhas	Daniel Fontaine	Government	143	RedCircle	48
57	Box Alarm - Awakening America	Curt Weldon	Government	6	Podbean	42
58	35 West	Center for Strategic and International Studies	Government	209	Megaphone	49
59	Lesser Known Operators	Nicholas Allen	Government	133	Simplecast	63
60	The Red Passport	Canadian International Council	News	46	Libsyn	43
61	Ducimus: The Canadian Infantry Podcast	Ducimus	Government	21	Spotify for Podcasters	42
62	NatSec Matters Details temporarily unavailable	Beacon Global Strategies LLC	Government	154	Libsyn	69
63	Audio Arguendo	Audio Arguendo	Government & Organizations	1629	Unknown	43
64	The DOT POD	NYSDOT - The DOT POD	Government	49	Spotify for Podcasters	53
65	The Capitol Forum Podcast	The Capitol Forum	Government	134	ART19	52
66	Une personne sur cinq : parlons santé mentale avec Florence K - Gouvernement du Québec	Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux	Government	6	Unknown	58
67	Politisk kvarter	NRK	Government	4	Unknown	38
68	Sphere Podcast	Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry	Government	31	Zencastr	22
69	Audio Briefs	Center for Strategic and International Studies	Government	1465	Megaphone	43
70	Any Questions? and Any Answers?	BBC Radio 4	Government	8	BBC	22
71	Southeast Asia Radio	CSIS \| Center for Strategic and International Studies	Government	147	Megaphone	38
72	Hudson Institute Events Podcast	Hudson Institute	Government	599	Simplecast	42
73	Building the Future: Freedom, Prosperity, and Foreign Policy with Dan Runde	CSIS \| Center for Strategic and International Studies	Government & Organizations	175	Megaphone	43
74	Eh Sayers	Statistics Canada	Government	36	Transistor	43
75	Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer	Civic Ventures	News	452	Megaphone	58
76	DSR's Words Matter	The DSR Network	Government	466	Megaphone	49
77	Intersections: Where Human Rights and Democracy Meet	CSIS \| Center for Strategic and International Studies	Government	11	Megaphone	53
78	The JFK Facts Podcast	Co-hosted by Jefferson Morley & Larry Schnapf	Government	65	Substack	43
79	شیرازه	BBC Persian Radio	Government	76	BBC	33
80	The Strong Towns Podcast	Strong Towns	Government	600	Podbean	42
81	What's Wrong with Democracy?	Tortoise Media	Government	23	Acast	89
82	The Chris Plante Show	WMAL \| Cumulus Podcast Network \| Cumulus Media Washington	Government	2001	Megaphone	43
83	The AI Policy Podcast	Center for Strategic and International Studies	News	108	Megaphone	43
84	Battleline Podcast	Kris "Tanto" Paronto & Ian Scotto	Government	322	Simplecast	58
85	Supreme Court of Canada Hearings (English Audio)	SCC Hearings Podcast	Government	153	Podbean	42
86	The Just Security Podcast	Just Security	Government	153	Buzzsprout	47
87	Political Theory 101	Political Theory 101	Government	96	Soundcloud	49
88	Into Africa	CSIS \| Center for Strategic and International Studies	Government	201	Megaphone	53
89	Fora do Baralho	Rádio Observador	Government	100	Omny Studio	43
90	Foreign Office with Michael Weiss	The DSR Network	Government	90	Megaphone	43
91	La historia no contada del proceso de paz	BAPP - Biblioteca Abierta del Proceso de Paz	Government	22	Spotify for Podcasters	68
92	Municipal Monday	MNL	Government	13	Spotify for Podcasters	28
93	Mexico Matters	Center for Strategic and International Studies	Government	58	Megaphone	38
94	The Policy Nerd, by UNESCO	UNESCO	Government	38	Ausha	38
95	Навальный Live	Навальный Live	Government & Organizations	2	Soundcloud	59
96	The Minutes	City of Thunder Bay	Government	108	RSS.com	52
97	Red Eye Radio	Cumulus Podcast Network	Government	1904	Megaphone	53
98	Law and Chaos	Liz Dye; Andrew Torrez	Government	263	Libsyn	58
99	Prisons Inside/Out	Correctional Service Canada	Government	26	Transistor	53
100	The Debrief with Jon Becker	Jon Becker	Government	99	Buzzsprout	58

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