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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  
! s) o: h3 p$ g% j4 Hin one of the Boardwalk's high rise buildings (Galbraith House) for  
680 CAD(everything was included), believe it or not the same apartment
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is more than 1300 CAD now.(I still have a copy of the contract and for
  
the current price look at this link  
6 D' @8 _9 X- P' z" @5 @$ Ihttp://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
increase in housing cost!

While I was paying 340CAD/month for more than a year, I鎶� paying  
600CAD/month plus utilities right now, some thing around 700CAD/month.
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Other costs of leaving have also increased and the university  
increases the tuition fee by few percent every year and international  
differential fee was increased by almost 20% last year. Add to this,  
5 {( Z! m+ v( J" }the fact that the university housing has no more space for newcomers  
and most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were  
asked to look for a residence on open market.

While the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
increased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
# R3 N+ l1 r' T" n: I) v; aexactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
) x( h9 y# z. S1 D1 q$ ?. oadmission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
+ }/ N; u0 p3 A5 u% p0 e  d. j8 ~=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
tuition fee and taxes). To make the argument easy to understand just  
imagine that a new student gets the same amount of money that I am  
getting 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  
3 X! V6 \2 i9 I) j# U, w2 D: N* H1 {admitted 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  
9 w6 ^6 B7 y) zAlberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
7 I, R, F. O) U, k2 j/ f* afrom different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
/ X1 g2 p" k. i* \+ @+ Rstudents are the main pillars of research work at the university.
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3 H8 G8 O0 u* k2 I4 x. b. B8 \My objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
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especially international students. Isn鎶� it time for the GSA to take
  
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6 S% t; }4 h. a5 w: P4 wgraduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?

0 L' U, p" ]( i1 K1 LPlease come with your experiences and ideas.
2 n/ l( B2 t' I5 O/ k8 K5 Q$ T7 QThank 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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