Sit-In

• Pro-Palestinian sit-ins set up on Saskatchewan university campuses Friday

  Events at USask and the University of Regina included Palestinian speakers, shared meals, art and reading groups and prayer.

  Canada

  May 17, 2024
  
• Quebec health minister ‘very concerned’ after Lakeshore nurses walk off job

  Emergency room nurses at the Lakeshore General Hospital staged multiple sit-ins over the weekend to protest what the union calls critical and ongoing staff shortages.

  Canada

  Jul 6, 2020
  
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• Production at Concordia University addresses campus uprising 50 years ago

  'Blackout' is a theatrical production that looks back at events 50 years ago that led to a riot, ending with 97 students being arrested.

  Canada

  Jan 29, 2019
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• GM employees in Oshawa back on the job after second sit-in to protest plant closure

  A union spokesperson said workers returned back on the production line following a sit-in Wednesday morning.

  Canada

  Jan 9, 2019
• NAACP leaders arrested during sit-in protest at office of Trump’s attorney general nominee

  The national president of the NAACP and five others were arrested after staging a sit-in Tuesday at the Alabama office of Sen. Jeff Sessions, the nominee for U.S. attorney general, the civil rights group said.

  Politics

  Jan 4, 2017
• Black Lives Matter flooded with hate mail following Toronto Pride Parade sit-in

  Black Lives Matter Toronto says it has been flooded with hate mail -- some from the LGBTQ community -- after its Pride Parade sit-in.

  Canada

  Jul 5, 2016
• C-SPAN uses social media feeds to cover Democrat sit-in

  With the cameras it uses to cover Congress shut off, C-SPAN turned to social media feeds to beam live coverage of the House Democrat's sit-in.

  Jun 23, 2016