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man888

When arrived to Edmonton to start my graduate studies on 2004, me and  
my friend rented a very nice, spacious and shiny 2-bedroom apartment  
$ W3 M3 l3 M: e6 V$ P+ Gin one of the Boardwalk's high rise buildings (Galbraith House) for  
680 CAD(everything was included), believe it or not the same apartment
  
is more than 1300 CAD now.(I still have a copy of the contract and for
  
; v/ O, J, a  _  `the current price look at this link  
. U% r0 `7 }* o  [http://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
  E1 ~- \  q0 g# ~0 Eincrease in housing cost!
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While I was paying 340CAD/month for more than a year, I鎶� paying  
, E; @" X; l. R" j; T600CAD/month plus utilities right now, some thing around 700CAD/month.
  
Other costs of leaving have also increased and the university  
increases the tuition fee by few percent every year and international  
) T. n! ]$ C  Z. o, _9 k- Vdifferential fee was increased by almost 20% last year. Add to this,  
. I8 {. A% l0 ?* Wthe fact that the university housing has no more space for newcomers  
5 u4 u7 |# ?% J3 ^) p3 |, cand most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were  
4 Z5 t; z2 G3 t6 Vasked to look for a residence on open market.
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While the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
increased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
exactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
# v" o  f1 g+ u- f3 `admission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
5 I$ @6 \6 Y; [/ w. Z, a; @/ K=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
  `6 A: G/ G4 f* h# E  \  ?tuition fee and taxes). To make the argument easy to understand just  
% {" R1 E0 ~# s0 S0 c! l0 V5 Gimagine that a new student gets the same amount of money that I am  
7 K# G& W* t) p# M; u) t/ [' Lgetting now and I was getting 3 years ago but he or she (like all of  
us) has to pay twice as much as I was paying for housing when I was  
: {2 a* e5 L2 K* }5 zadmitted and has to incur at least 70% more in average living costs.

Also have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
" U  L& ^$ T, a6 ^$ }4 qAlberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
1 u3 E- r4 N* P; C, B7 M: Ofrom different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
3 u8 E; f$ `, G2 r  X( M1 w& ^students are the main pillars of research work at the university.

My objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
9 w% @& J2 v( s0 r; H$ u: Sis to question the adequacy of financial aid for graduate and  
especially international students. Isn鎶� it time for the GSA to take
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( x8 A" w% q( @( hinitiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
graduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?
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Please come with your experiences and ideas.
Thank you all
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lischka

It is true. Nobody cares about the international students. They are just making money from us.

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man888

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