It really depends on what you want to hear about. But I listen to allot of podcasts and I've sampled even more, so I could recommend something for most topics.
If you're new to podcasts I would always recommend starting with The History of Rome. Mike has a great prospective on the world, and the characters from Roman history are just the greatest humanity has ever created. Even though the show wraps up 1500 years ago it is very informative about how/why we have the world that we have today. It's been wrapped for about 7 years, and its only about 80 hours long in total, which isn't too bad for a series like this.
Personally right now I'm listening to the British History Podcast, if you have about 400 hours to spare, and that's almost gotten him up to the Normand Conquest. As a follow up to the history of Rome, if you are interested in the rise of the Anglosphere its interest, but it moves very very slow, be prepared for the guy to spend 7 hours on some minor king of wessex history majors couldn't name.
Freakenomics is a good weekly for obscure/interesting ideas. 45 minutes where they drill not too deep into one question.
I'll second Sean Carrols Mindscape, for long form science / philosophy conversations, but there are allot of good long form conversation podcasts out there, I would just try a few until you find one you like if this is what your looking for, I listen to allot of podcasts and I only seem to have time for about 3 of these in my feed at any given time.
News I'm on the Economists consolidated feed, where I get all of their podcasts. Its actually very hard to find good Canadian news podcasts or World News. Almost all of the good ones are very US focused.
Science news, I like the Skeptics Guide to the Universe, I usually have 3 or 4 science news podcasts in my feed, but this on is the one I would probably keep if I had to cut it down. usually about 1 hours /week. You get a half dozen science news items, and some good conversation on how to critically interpret them, a few gimicky quiz segments you can play along with every week.
And one infrequent one I've kind of enjoyed, What Trump Can Teach us about Con Law. Not really targeted at Canadians, but you get a real constitutional law professor explaining how Trumps criminality stacks up in the scope of history.
True Crime: Serial and S-Town are certainly the place to start. Suspense drama, cliffhangers.
Unsolicited opinion: Sam Harris and Joe Rogan are swill. 100% chance if you ask for podcasts recommendations you will get these two. But they are just white noise, you will not finish your walk any smarter for having listened to those two.
Canadian Focused, the docket is probably the best, but it not regularly released and very focused on legal proceedings.
Alberta Focused, I haven't really found anything I like right now but there's Daveberta you could try out.
Calgary focused, I would say the Sprawl
Hockey focused probably 31 thoughts.
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