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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  
: e6 B( V9 `# \( pin one of the Boardwalk's high rise buildings (Galbraith House) for  
  u1 w1 Y( R& s4 @% R680 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
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2 q" O. J' n* |5 e2 Lthe current price look at this link  
http://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
increase in housing cost!
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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,  
the fact that the university housing has no more space for newcomers  
and most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were  
. q9 C/ E# y3 F9 L% |' O9 Xasked to look for a residence on open market.

8 b( I& c7 |; t" ~/ \" ~While the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
- |  R  {: p1 \& X* @) Vincreased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
exactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
) F  A8 v9 f" U) o. Sadmission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
4 J- J4 c+ J: D- \=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
" u: X( P0 Y3 ftuition fee and taxes). To make the argument easy to understand just  
- ]. c. `& ]' ^/ P+ K. w6 Wimagine that a new student gets the same amount of money that I am  
( Z9 c1 p; I# O& e+ I* S5 N( `getting now and I was getting 3 years ago but he or she (like all of  
; _5 m4 E, ?1 o- J/ h# z  Vus) has to pay twice as much as I was paying for housing when I was  
. H) E9 ~7 p. O% z/ D# I" ^admitted and has to incur at least 70% more in average living costs.

; e3 b! S9 r+ f; E. e" b% hAlso have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
Alberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
from different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
; }! |9 C2 ~7 R1 q- @: @students are the main pillars of research work at the university.

4 ~9 ^# ^, U4 U8 T+ zMy objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
# w( |) Z, |8 J! f7 j( G! [is to question the adequacy of financial aid for graduate and  
7 f, V* ~8 B  ~) vespecially international students. Isn鎶� it time for the GSA to take
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initiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
$ a9 w0 G+ A; E* _  V/ J1 Q+ wgraduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?

$ O, W) l8 `9 XPlease 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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