Top Society & Culture Podcasts in Canada

The latest Apple Podcasts Society & Culture chart for Canada, refreshed throughout the day. Last checked September 14, 2026.

1

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

2

This American Life

This American Life

3

The Oprah Podcast

Harpo

4

The Ezra Klein Show

New York Times Opinion

5

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

6

The Shawn Ryan Show

Shawn Ryan

7

The Permanent Questions With David Brooks

The Atlantic

8

Ideas

CBC

9

Gloves Off

Gloves Off with Stephen Marche

10

I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?

BBC Sounds

11

Black Box: The Chatbots

The Guardian

12

Ouvre ton jeu avec Marie-Claude Barrette

Umano Productions

13

Happy Hour with Ina Garten

Vox Media

14

Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

15

Behind the Bastards

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

16

Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly

Apostrophe Podcast Network

17

The Viall Files

Nick Viall

18

Backstage at the Vinyl Cafe

Apostrophe Podcast Network

19

Au Parloir

Cédric Bergeron

20

TED Talks Daily

TED

21

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

22

What Now? with Trevor Noah

Trevor Noah

23

Revisionist History: The Staten Island Problem

Pushkin Industries

24

This Is Actually Happening

Audible

25

The Sunday Magazine

CBC

26

Modern Girl

Brynne Marie

27

Roz & Mocha

Frequency Podcast Network

28

The Interview

The New York Times

29

Le 5 à 7 OD

Noovo

30

The Documentary Podcast

BBC World Service

31

The Curiosity Shop with Brené Brown and Adam Grant

Vox Media Podcast Network

32

Two Girls One Ghost

Sony Music Entertainment

33

All There Is with Anderson Cooper

CNN Podcasts

34

If Books Could Kill

Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri

35

Philosophize This!

Stephen West

36

Everybody Knows But Me

Holly Brown, Next Chapter Podcasts, Companion

37

Diabolical Lies

Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke

38

Party Pyjama

Party Pyjama

39

The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud

Do Good Crew

40

Otherworld

Otherworld

41

On with Kara Swisher

Vox Media

42

Against The Odds

Audible

43

OUBLIE PAS TA BROSSE À DENTS - Podcast d’Alexandre Barrette

Alexandre Barrette

44

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Pushkin Industries

45

Radio Rental

Tenderfoot TV & Audacy

46

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

47

Q with Tom Power

CBC

48

Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel

Esther Perel Global Media

49

We Regret To Inform You: The Rejection Podcast

Apostrophe Podcast Network

50

Hey Jonas!

iHeartPodcasts

51

Scamfluencers

Audible

52

Chicks in the Office

Barstool Sports

53

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Higher Ground

54

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

55

Velours

KO Studios

56

Before & After with Lester Holt

NBC News

57

Tu devrais consulter

Louise Sigouin et Marie-Hélène Poirier

58

Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries

Olimpia Pérez

59

I've Had It

Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan

60

On s'connait pas tant que ça

Studio SF

61

Brooke and Connor Make A Podcast

TMG Studios

62

Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)

Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson

63

Modern Love

The New York Times

64

Adrift

Apple TV / Blanchard House

65

Heavyweight

Pushkin Industries

66

Paper Trail

ProPublica

67

CreepCast

Wendigoon & MeatCanyon

68

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

iHeartPodcasts

69

Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud

CBC

70

La vie sociale

La vie sociale

71

Dear Hank & John

Complexly

72

Shameless

Shameless Media

73

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones | Daylight Media

74

Aujourd'hui l'histoire

Radio-Canada

75

No Stupid Questions

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

76

Joy 101 with Hoda Kotb

iHeartPodcasts

77

Desert Island Discs

BBC Radio 4

78

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

Vox

79

Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari

Dear Media

80

Brand Safe

Tana Mongeau

81

What I survived

Jack Laurence

82

So Supernatural

Audiochuck | Crime House

83

U Up?

Betches Media

84

The Hidden Third

Mariana van Zeller

85

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein

Matt Bernstein

86

Artifacts of Grief

Snack Labs

87

Embedded

NPR

88

The Wirecutter Show

The New York Times

89

Wartime Stories

Unknown

90

What It Was Like

Superreal

91

Our Town

Bloomberg and iHeartPodcasts

92

Khloé in Wonder Land

Khloé Kardashian

93

The Secret World of Roald Dahl

iHeartPodcasts

94

Cults to Consciousness

Shelise Ann Sola, Jonathan C Rosales

95

Oprah's Super Soul

Oprah

96

Elles - Le balado

Marilou et Catherine

97

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

98

Wild Card with Rachel Martin

NPR

99

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

100

OnlyFantasy

Audible

101

Abroad in Japan

Stak

102

Focus: Adults in the Room

KUOW News and Information

103

Where the River Took Us

Texas Monthly

104

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media

105

The Social Podcast

The Social

106

Dear Shandy

Sharleen Joynt & Andy Levine

107

World of Secrets

BBC

108

Hey Tablo

Team Epikase

109

Hysteria

Hysteria

110

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

111

The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

112

60 Minutes

CBS News

113

Lucky Boy | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

114

Contact - avec Stéphan Bureau

Les Productions de la Tête Chercheuse Inc.

115

The Nerve with Maureen Callahan

MK Media

116

Pinkpill Rx

Katie Fillmore

117

5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan

Andrew Callaghan

118

We Need To Talk with Paul C. Brunson

WNTT

119

The Best People with Nicolle Wallace

MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace

120

Mark Narrations - Reddit Stories

Mark B

121

Humans

Hank Green

122

Sans Filtre Podcast

Studio SF

123

Au-delà du Visible

Break Média Inc

124

ReThinking

TED

125

Emotionally Online

Maddie Dragsbaek

126

Open Book with Jenna

TODAY, Jenna Bush Hager

127

nuances

Marilou Martineau

128

Personally

CBC

129

Affaires sensibles

France Inter

130

The Birth Keepers

The Guardian

131

Within Reason

Alex J O'Connor

132

The Thomas FreeMe Show: From Prison to Prosperity!

Thomas FreeMe

133

S-Town

Serial Productions

134

REINTEGRATION: The Blueprint for a Successful Rehabilitation

Thomas FreeMe

135

Québec Nostalgie : le podcast

Québec Nostalgie

136

Hyperfixed

Alex Goldman & Radiotopia

137

A Slight Change of Plans

Pushkin Industries

138

The Dream

Little Everywhere

139

R.A.F (Rien à foutre)

Rafaëlle Roy, Florence Belzile

140

Lives Less Ordinary

BBC World Service

141

In Bed With The Right

Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan

142

The Crux True Survival Stories

The Crux True Survival Stories

143

STASSI with Tay

PodcastOne

144

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

145

Unexplained

iHeartPodcasts

146

Critics at Large | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

147

The Spill

Mamamia Podcasts

148

Sweet Bobby

Tortoise Media

149

Literally! With Rob Lowe

Stitcher & Team Coco, Rob Lowe

150

Making Space with Hoda Kotb

Hoda Kotb, TODAY

151

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

152

Solita

iHeartPodcasts

153

Cleared Hot - Powered By BRCC

Andy Stumpf

154

The Art of Manliness

The Art of Manliness

155

HAHA Podcast

HAHA Podcast

156

Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer

Headgum & Nicole Byer

157

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

Oprah and Eckhart Tolle

158

Timcast IRL

Timcast Media

159

Les pieds sur terre

France Culture

160

Call Your Sister with Joy & Jinger

Jinger Vuolo, Joy Forsyth

161

Transfert

Slate.fr Podcasts

162

Heretics | Andrew Gold

Andrew Gold

163

Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky

Prufrock LLC

164

Call The Girls Podcast

The Girls

165

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment

166

It's Been a Minute

NPR

167

Sounds Like A Cult

Studio71

168

Hot Mess

Alix Earle

169

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Podcasts

170

Pop Apologists

PodcastOne

171

Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter

Barstool Sports

172

Blood is Thicker: The Farris Wheel

CBS News

173

People I (Mostly) Admire

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

174

More or Less

BBC Radio 4

175

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

176

DEAD Talks

David Ferrugio

177

What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.

Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media.

178

Lemme Say This

Higher Ground

179

On Being with Krista Tippett

On Being Studios

180

Conversations with Coleman

The Free Press

181

Explain It to Me

Vox

182

Unexplained Encounters

Eeriecast Network

183

Jim Harold's Campfire

Jim Harold

184

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Everything Happens Studios

185

Uncanny

BBC Radio 4

186

GSP Podcast

Georges St-Pierre

187

The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby

Matt & Abby | Daylight Media

188

Better in Person with Stephen Dubner

Freakonomics Radio

189

7 jours sur Terre

7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay

190

The Hot Tub Podcast

Stingray Podcast Network

191

Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

192

The Louis Theroux Podcast

Spotify Studios

193

The Dating Detectives

Dear Media

194

Intelligence Squared

Intelligence Squared

195

The Lila Rose Show

Lila Rose

196

Monsters Among Us

Derek Hayes | Audioboom Studios

197

Locked In with Ian Bick

Ian Bick

198

Keeping It Real: Conversations with Jillian Michaels

Jillian Michaels

199

Manger les riches

Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias

200

The Jeremy Boreing Show

Boreing Media

201

忽左忽右

JustPod

202

Code Switch

NPR

203

Disrespectfully

Katie Maloney, Dayna Kathan

204

It’s a Girl Thing

Ebony and Lucie

205

Pretty Basic with Alisha Marie and Remi Cruz

Dear Media

206

Love Life With Matthew Hussey

Matthew Hussey

207

Other People’s Lives

Other People’s Lives

208

A Little Bit Culty

Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames

209

Decoder Ring

Slate Podcasts

210

Storylines

CBC

211

Blowback

Blowback

212

Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero

Louis Ruggiero

213

Theories of the Third Kind

Theories of the Third Kind

214

The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast

Oprah

215

The Dr. Phil Podcast

Dr. Phil McGraw

216

I Said What I Said

The Carousel Network

217

Wait a Second...

The Ringer

218

La journée (est encore jeune)

Radio-Canada

219

Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast

TMDS

220

Who's with Me? with W. Kamau Bell

Pushkin Industries

221

Trivia. Sort of.

Matt Gilhooly

222

Philosophie pour tous

Le Précepteur

223

Why Are You Like This? with Megan Rapinoe

Vox Media Podcast Network

224

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

225

The Comment Section with Drew Afualo

Drew Afualo

226

Girls Next Level

Holly Madison & Bridget Marquardt

227

Bitchologie

URBANIA

228

Travel with Rick Steves

Rick Steves

229

Scheananigans with Scheana Shay

Dear Media

230

Question Everything

Brian Reed

231

Le Temps Des Monstres

Le Temps Des Monstres

232

Le 5 à 7 Podcast

Jessica Roux & Rosemarie Santerre

233

Wind of Change

Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify

234

Tout le monde est rendu queer

Club Sexu

235

Chez moi

Mariloup Wolfe

236

The Grounded Union Podcast

Brandon and Caitlyn Doerksen

237

Let's Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa

Kelly Ripa

238

No Filter

Mamamia Podcasts

239

The Winston Marshall Show

Winston Marshall

240

Culture Study Podcast

Anne Helen Petersen

241

It's Me, Tinx

Tinx

242

Things Fell Apart

BBC Radio 4

243

Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

Pushkin Industries

244

Comments by Celebs

Dear Media

245

Family Secrets

iHeartPodcasts

246

Magic Thread Media

Conscious Voices for a More Connected World

247

Astonishing Legends

Astonishing Legends Productions

248

Good Guys

Dear Media

249

Sibling Revelry with Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson

iHeartPodcasts

250

The Rabbit Hole: Conspiracy Theories

Danielle Mercy

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