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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  
& Y$ a5 O/ F; R2 J/ Y7 pin one of the Boardwalk's high rise buildings (Galbraith House) for  
680 CAD(everything was included), believe it or not the same apartment
  
  Q* p% T/ }' w- N* {: j0 @0 bis more than 1300 CAD now.(I still have a copy of the contract and for
. C# `7 @+ q6 ~( n! F" r. z  
6 Z& O/ n+ i) L# l5 _1 jthe current price look at this link  
6 g" T- o1 T7 i* Khttp://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.
  
. y0 p. Z% b: z7 t- uOther costs of leaving have also increased and the university  
increases the tuition fee by few percent every year and international  
1 r9 t3 }4 d+ Q/ W% G. Rdifferential fee was increased by almost 20% last year. Add to this,  
! i/ A8 i- Y3 v9 D8 X  B' P2 Nthe fact that the university housing has no more space for newcomers  
2 ^, Y* k1 f6 ^3 o0 dand most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were  
9 a  }- C7 j4 w/ w* L$ @asked to look for a residence on open market.

& R8 K/ U0 J& j  \While the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
increased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
1 ]4 m3 z, j& p- p+ M- sexactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
' N  V1 P2 N! radmission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
  X* y, v/ c, U' {=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
- h5 p9 N2 n+ S3 u1 O8 ltuition 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  
3 p* y5 L  Z1 zus) has to pay twice as much as I was paying for housing when I was  
% r: p/ i' S1 A4 S2 I2 Badmitted 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  
8 \7 m1 d4 ~- p4 q% ~8 z" bAlberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
from different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
$ i1 x( j! a- T2 _0 F- ^) ]6 P& ?students are the main pillars of research work at the university.

" b9 k/ @( F0 ~* ~, w9 qMy objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
is to question the adequacy of financial aid for graduate and  
( f- v4 Q7 u4 V, [! y. v0 r4 Jespecially international students. Isn鎶� it time for the GSA to take
  
, w, M" F. v% }8 u4 J: P) i) minitiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
graduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?

Please come with your experiences and ideas.
# \; w, A1 K2 p( R  ^Thank you all
Ali

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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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