"Democracy Now’s" Amy Goodman detained by Canadians over…the Olympics?

Border issues can be weird sometimes. As someone who’s been briefly detained at the US-Canada border, I can attest to the fact that it’s difficult to read the bureaucracies on both sides of the line.

But this one is very peculiar. Public radio host Amy Goodman, whose left-of-center program “Democracy Now” is a favorite with many listeners was detained on the way to Vancouver.

CBC reports that Goodman says border officials in Canada were afraid that she would be speaking about the 2010 Olympic games, coming up this winter in Vancouver.

She was also ordered to leave Canada within 24 hours.

Watch an interview with Goodman here.

“I was surprised…I felt, as a journalist, violated,” Goodman told CBC.