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man888

When arrived to Edmonton to start my graduate studies on 2004, me and  
9 C: ~) F' b* o. \0 U  N3 R7 Xmy friend rented a very nice, spacious and shiny 2-bedroom apartment  
% K  G5 d+ y0 _4 zin one of the Boardwalk's high rise buildings (Galbraith House) for  
# P, b2 U6 c6 p$ R' 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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the current price look at this link  
http://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
& E: _, Y- ~+ ^4 q" ]increase in housing cost!
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While I was paying 340CAD/month for more than a year, I鎶� paying  
6 P3 t8 P: g7 |, n; _9 }600CAD/month plus utilities right now, some thing around 700CAD/month.
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( K3 t- ]/ H+ P5 G# EOther 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,  
' K, C( Y- |8 {the fact that the university housing has no more space for newcomers  
. l' M0 f9 ]: M0 ]5 ~  p. _and most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were  
asked to look for a residence on open market.

9 J, N" l; \7 v/ E( v3 ^, }4 V! m% gWhile the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
$ ^7 [7 J) e% u& R9 zincreased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
exactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
' W  x$ f/ C% j7 g2 p' Madmission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
' s6 F6 y2 l3 y; ]: c; vtuition 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  
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  
/ N' V6 z4 F. i  A# Q8 U" [' hAlberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
from different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
students are the main pillars of research work at the university.

% ]4 ^% I1 {; b0 Z5 xMy objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
is to question the adequacy of financial aid for graduate and  
, R7 t/ e6 o7 H: yespecially international students. Isn鎶� it time for the GSA to take
  
: [+ k3 ~8 `" ]8 b+ sinitiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
graduate 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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