Talk about “third time’s a charm.”

Check this out: On the third day of the third Olympics ever held in Canada, 33 years (and seven months) after the Olympic cauldron was first lit in the Great White North, Canada won its third medal of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

And this one was gold.

The big story at the 2010 Winter Olympics has been the question of whether Canada would be able to — for the first time — win a gold medal on Canadian soil. It didn’t happen when Canada first hosted the Summer Olympics in Montreal in 1976, and it didn’t happen when the Winter Olympics came to Calgary in 1988.

But with a blistering 23.17-second time and a 26.76 score from the judges in the men’s moguls, 22-year-old Quebec native Alexandre Bilodeau made it happen, and there was immediately no doubt about who’d be named Canadian of the Week.

Check out his gold-medal run here

Congrats to Alex and all of Canada!

Things are heating up in Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics, which get started on Friday, and while most American kids might ask, “What would Brian Boitano do?” Canadian kids are more likely to wonder, “What would Elvis Stojko do?”

Yahoo Canada has them covered. Stojko, who’s apparently taking a break from promoting his debut album, is serving as a commentator for Yahoo Canada for the Games, and he kicks off his coverage with some advice for the athletes.

Check it out:

In this second video, Stojko recalls some of his favorite memories of competing on the world’s largest athetics stage.

Check out more Winter Olympics coverage from Yahoo Canada right here.

The Olympic torch warmed the heart of 95-year-old Audrey Forzani, who on Tuesday officially became the eldest person to carry the torch on its cross-country trek to Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Games.

Forzani returned to her old neighborhood of Renfrew in Calgary, Alberta, which was where her Italian immigrant parents settled 100 years ago, to get her torch lit and carry it on her wheelchair through a stretch of the city where she raised her three boys, who all played football in the CFL.

For more on the story, check out the Calgary Herald.

Hometown girl Shania Twain returned to Timmins, Ontario, on New Year’s Day to run the Olympic torch as it continued on its trek across The Great White North to Vancouver, B.C.

After the run, she donated the torch and the torch-bearer’s uniform she wore to the Shania Twain Centre, an exhibition center and gathering place that celebrates the singer’s rise to fame from the small mining town.

According to a post on her Web site, Twain revealed a minor modification she made to the torch when she handed it over to Timmins Mayor Tom Laughren: she put white hockey tape on the handle before her run.

She explained she did it “so it wouldn’t slip out of my hand. I thought that would be rather embarrassing if I dropped the torch!”

Twain also remarked that she was pleased to be back at the STC.

“It’s just such a huge honour,” she remarked. She added that she thinks about the centre often and says remembers her Timmins roots and “what it is for a small town girl to come from here.”

Country sensation and Canadian cutie Shania Twain will be running the Olympic torch through her hometown of Timmins, Ontario, tonight as the torch continues its journey to Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, which kick off next month.

Twain asked fans on her Web site to follow her run of the torch live online (click here to see it), and wrote back in October that it was an “immense honour” to have been asked to participate.

“It is certain to be one of the most memorable experiences of my life,” she wrote. “I am proud to have been presented this unique opportunity and privilege and look forward to sharing the pride with my hometown and fellow Canadians as we are all proud of our country’s chance to host the upcoming winter games.”

The Canadian Press reports that despite protests that took place when the torch went through southern Ontario last month, Olympic officials say there are no signs of any demonstrations planned for Timmins on Friday and they don’t plan on boosting security when Twain carries the flame.

Watch her journey here.

With apologies to Chris Matthews, Stephen Colbert is heading to the enemy camp: He’s going to Canada.

Colbert, whose feud with the Great White North is based on what he considers an international speedskating scandal, received an invitation to the 2010 Winter Olympics from the city that will be hosting speedskating at The Games.

Colbert’s beef with Canada stems from what he claims was an effort to limit the U.S. speedskating team’s practice time in the Vancouver area. Colbert’s show, “The Colbert Report,” became the U.S. speedskating team’s official sponsor after its original sponsor fell through. He soon put Canada in his sights, calling Canadians “syrup suckers” and “ice-holes.” He even started a letter-writing campaign against the country.

Last week, we reported that Colbert has a Canadian background, according to Ancestry.ca, and now he might be heading there.

The City of Richmond, B.C., has invited Colbert to serve as an ombudsman, overseeing the treatment of the American team while it’s in Canada.

“I have no idea what an ombudsman is, but as long as it requires no effort from me, I proudly accept,” Colbert said on his show Thursday night (watch it below).

Colbert believes that “nothing can stop U.S. speedskaters now, except maybe Canadians.”

He quoted a Wall Street Journal report that said Canada has “an aggressive new attitude” for these Olympic Games.

“According to one of the Canadian coaches, Canada is finally more concerned with winning than being nice, hence their new Olympic slogan, ‘Own the Podium,’” Colbert said. “In contrast to their previous slogan, ‘Pardon, would it trouble you if we won a medal or two? It would? OK, never mind.’”

Colbert said his efforts and those of his fans were already paying off because he received an official letter from the International Skating Union, saying the speedskating rink will be open earlier, which would allow the Americans to practice.

“I am kind of surprised the Canadians responded this quickly,” he said. “Their postal beaver normally takes months to cross Manitoba.”

Stephen Colbert has turned his brow-arched eye to the north lately, picking on Canada in the run-up to the 2010 Winter Olympics. He’s accused Canadians of cheating at the Winter Games, which haven’t even yet begun, he’s called them “syrup suckers” and has advocated for an American-based Ontario Hockey League team.

(Check out the video below to see Colbert launch a letter-writing campaign against Canada)

As it turns out, though, Colbert might as well have a maple leaf tattooed on his syrup sucker.

That’s what Ancestry.ca would have you believe, anyway. The family lineage Web site looked into Colbert’s background and found that he has two (sort of) Canadians in his background.

James Quinn, Stephen’s great-great-grandfather, was born in Ireland in 1830 but eventually set sail for a better life in Canada.

According to his 1851 Census record, James Quinn lived and worked as a labourer in Frontenac County near Kingston, Ontario. James’ daughter Angeline Quinn married George William Colbert, Stephen’s great-grandfather.

Mary Skelton (nee Mary Ann Gurry) is another paternal ancestor of Stephen’s. Also born in Ireland, she was Stephen’s great-great-grandmother. She immigrated to the United States where she would meet her future husband Creighton Skelton.

What happened next is unclear, but at some point Mary ended up moving north of the border, where she would live out her last days. According to her Ontario death certificate, Mary Skelton passed away on June 29, 1880 in Haldimand County, near the shores of Lake Erie.

Mary and Creighton’s daughter Elizabeth Skelton married Hugh Tormey. Their daughter Mary Tormey married James W. Colbert Sr. — Stephen’s grandfather.

“As Stephen himself admits, he has little time for facts, logic or information… he prefers to feel the truth rather than look it up in historical records,” said Karen Peterson, marketing director for Ancestry.ca. “However, we are confident that if he searches his soul deep down the truthiness of his Canadian heritage will be too powerful to deny.”