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man888

When arrived to Edmonton to start my graduate studies on 2004, me and  
( r' W) X: v2 s- omy friend rented a very nice, spacious and shiny 2-bedroom apartment  
  a& l' f  e0 qin 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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is more than 1300 CAD now.(I still have a copy of the contract and for
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. D. ~/ P0 }# I1 c! Qthe current price look at this link  
http://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
2 s6 P: L/ h- {. j5 e/ ?, y# U6 Uincrease in housing cost!
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While I was paying 340CAD/month for more than a year, I鎶� paying  
6 Y8 K# a3 }' q  n! [2 q9 I8 H2 [600CAD/month plus utilities right now, some thing around 700CAD/month.
  
$ Q! d$ Y/ T8 |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,  
7 U! e) `2 z7 Bthe fact that the university housing has no more space for newcomers  
and most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were  
* O; O# t8 h0 {' I6 p7 {9 Easked to look for a residence on open market.
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1 A6 w: h4 X9 v+ Z6 l5 y0 }1 KWhile the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
5 u3 J# Q4 w3 N' |1 l4 K& Z, Lincreased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
+ d' a  N  h: p- w' g+ vexactly 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  
: A7 P7 A8 y7 t1 P5 p- S( G/ A( ]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  
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  
Alberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
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students are the main pillars of research work at the university.
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3 H8 R  X& r5 {- A5 K3 b# @My 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  
graduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?
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Please come with your experiences and ideas.
& ?$ [. t1 P" H  m6 {) CThank 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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