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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  
  `$ [$ P# L7 C6 c$ T( l, m6 v$ ]1 _in one of the Boardwalk's high rise buildings (Galbraith House) for  
9 K' s2 ]& R2 t9 q3 c% N3 U$ z8 _680 CAD(everything was included), believe it or not the same apartment
  
9 N  |1 [3 h8 i9 ^( `* |# Lis more than 1300 CAD now.(I still have a copy of the contract and for
  
! g, F- Y" L8 g  N; ]the current price look at this link  
  A4 E2 j5 I1 [) A7 l3 Ahttp://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.
  
Other costs of leaving have also increased and the university  
increases the tuition fee by few percent every year and international  
6 h' ^3 B# h; ]0 C4 L& `differential fee was increased by almost 20% last year. Add to this,  
, d! R- S1 o, l; gthe fact that the university housing has no more space for newcomers  
8 \5 r( L2 u/ ^- V+ vand most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were  
2 p' c4 i7 z4 {' W: wasked to look for a residence on open market.

While the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
! ?1 Z9 B. A, c8 B4 p7 J) Pincreased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
exactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
admission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
  v, V3 e! G: K, c=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  
" n  x$ @) B5 d# U% f: `: Zgetting now and I was getting 3 years ago but he or she (like all of  
9 ?; s& a, q- n2 K  Lus) 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  
* {1 Z: x! `' U0 E8 q1 `+ FAlberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
2 @+ T% Q/ `0 v9 n. Ufrom different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
students are the main pillars of research work at the university.

9 w* r3 d/ H3 w5 ]: sMy objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
is to question the adequacy of financial aid for graduate and  
especially international students. Isn鎶� it time for the GSA to take
  
initiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
/ b* Y5 \: d9 e* W+ C$ Ygraduate 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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