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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  
3 J8 @, J* u7 r3 Kin 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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4 p* R# j0 z* e- U. G, y) bis more than 1300 CAD now.(I still have a copy of the contract and for
  
the current price look at this link  
- K9 Y# P; M# L) f8 d2 shttp://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  
% j' ?; _: F8 _1 J* X600CAD/month plus utilities right now, some thing around 700CAD/month.
  
6 O. ~1 f/ q- N1 \Other costs of leaving have also increased and the university  
. ^9 [: |, I" k/ lincreases the tuition fee by few percent every year and international  
& J$ a6 n4 \6 C( H3 o) wdifferential fee was increased by almost 20% last year. Add to this,  
" Z0 J4 |0 `0 l/ Bthe 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  
! [, c0 h/ N" S; K9 U) hincreased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
+ x* B7 u' R6 f4 N8 Kexactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
admission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
=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  
/ w% U6 L$ B- K7 Fgetting now and I was getting 3 years ago but he or she (like all of  
) \9 `1 \! h9 R" {us) has to pay twice as much as I was paying for housing when I was  
admitted and has to incur at least 70% more in average living costs.
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Also have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
. ]5 q! p5 f5 ]& o. S1 lAlberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
from different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
) g  M3 [7 C# _# n: Hstudents are the main pillars of research work at the university.

7 V0 m6 z7 N6 c8 s$ z) LMy objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
/ S  K! e) Q1 Q  N$ e5 l  A- s( cis to question the adequacy of financial aid for graduate and  
; o- ~' D1 o9 O/ _9 }* L5 fespecially international students. Isn鎶� it time for the GSA to take
  
initiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
# H' U/ D* D+ E  Y. k' Y4 c" R2 igraduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?

Please come with your experiences and ideas.
! R. d  w& F3 ^+ R5 {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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