10 Best Documentary Podcasts Canada Edition 2025

1. Nighttime

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Nighttime is an audio documentary series which explores Canada's most fascinating stories. Join host Jordan Bonaparte for an exploration of Canadian true crime, mysteries, and the weird.
Host Jordan Bonaparte
Producer/Network Jordan Bonaparte / Curiouscast
Email ****@gmail.com
Location Nova Scotia, Canada
Apple Rating 4.5/5Facebook 65.2KTwitter 10.3KInstagram 17.8K Avg Length 59 min Get Email Contact Get Influential Podcasters ContactsGet access to 100k active Podcasters, Influencers in 1500 niche categories.(Export Full Database)Get targeted media contact list in your niche at your fingertips so you can focus on running your campaign.Email us the categories of Podcasters you want to reach out for your marketing campaign at anuj@feedspot.com Copy email. We'll share active Podcasters list with verified email contacts in an Excel or CSV format.Email us

2. Ongoing History of New Music

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Ongoing History of New Music looks at things from the alt-rock universe to hip hop, from artist profiles to various thematic explorations. It is Canada's most well known music documentary hosted by the legendary Alan Cross. Whatever the episode, you're definitely going to learn something that you might not find anywhere else. Trust us on this.MORE Host Alan Cross
Producer/Network Curiouscast
Email ****@alancross.ca
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Apple Rating 4.9/5Facebook 15.7KTwitter 258 Avg Length 35 min Get Email Contact

3. Atlantic Voice

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Atlantic Voice is the home of east coast documentary storytelling. Settle in for thoughtful radio docs and interviews that dive deep into the people of Atlantic Canada and what they're up to.MORE Host Lindsay Bird
Producer/Network CBC
Email ****@cbc.ca
Location Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Apple Rating 5/5Facebook 1.2KTwitter 1.4K Avg Length 27 min Get Email Contact

4. Queer Legends: An Oral History Podcast

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Season-2 tells the The True Story of Canada's LGBT Purge in a landmark eight part documentary series. It's the first documentary to share the full extent of Canada's anti-homosexual campaigns from WW1 to today, based on our research of thousands of pages of newly declassified documents released through the LGBT Purge class-action settlement. From ridiculous to shocking, you'll hear amazing true stories from courageous survivors; academics; researchers; former MPs, cabinet ministers and a retired Chief of Defence Staff...MORE Producer/Network Shawn Dearn
Email ****@secretagents.ca
Location Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Apple Rating 3.7/5Twitter 2.5K Avg Length 30 min Get Email Contact

5. Storylines

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A weekly documentary show for people who love narrative podcasts. These are stories you can't stop thinking about. That you'll tell your friends about. And that will help you understand what's going on in Canada, and why. Every week a journalist follows one story, meets the people at its centre, and makes it make sense. Sometimes it's about people living out the headlines in real life. Sometimes it's about someone you've never heard of, living through something you had no idea was happening. Either way, you'll go somewhere, meet someone, get the context, and learn something new...MORE Host Acey Rowe
Producer/Network CBC STORIES
Email ****@gmail.com
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Apple Rating 4.9/5Facebook 4.4KInstagram 1.1K Avg Length 26 min Get Email Contact

6. Invisible Institutions

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Invisible Institutions is a new documentary podcast exploring the past and present of institutions for people labelled with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Canada
Producer/Network Megan Q. Linton
Apple Rating 5/5 Avg Length 40 min Get Email Contact

7. Three Dudes and a Doc Podcast

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Three documentary loving Dudes set out on a quest to CONQUER ALL DOCUMENTARIES! Well not really....we just love watching and talking about documentary movies! Each week features a new film where we give our most (usually) outrageous thoughts on the movie. Sometimes we have a special guest related to the movie we covered. Send us suggestions for movies you want to hear us cover!Join us on Twitter @ www.twitter.com/threedudespod and on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ThreeDudesAndADocMORE Producer/Network ThreeDudesAndADoc
Email ****@gmail.com
Location Belleville, Ontario, Canada
Apple Rating 4.1/5Facebook 96 Avg Length 57 min Get Email Contact

8. COMMONS

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COMMONS is a documentary podcast that proves Canada is anything but boring. Each season, host Arshy Mann guides you through the country's dark underbelly, bringing you stories about crime, corruption and all manner of misdeeds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.MORE Host Arshy Mann
Producer/Network Canadaland Beyond
Email ****@canadaland.com
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Apple Rating 4.2/5Facebook 22.1KTwitter 8.5KInstagram 11.8K Avg Length 29 min Get Email Contact