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When arrived to Edmonton to start my graduate studies on 2004, me and  
9 _# u' P  A9 M! _& G1 T2 y1 o7 N' Mmy friend rented a very nice, spacious and shiny 2-bedroom apartment  
5 \1 h3 s5 c5 T- O7 \in one of the Boardwalk's high rise buildings (Galbraith House) for  
680 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  
. f4 W' f: J6 x5 X5 t, `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  
( z: G5 f  y+ H2 d# N9 J$ r; `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  
- y8 V3 [, B/ W2 N, B5 {9 sincreases the tuition fee by few percent every year and international  
) N) N$ n& G! P8 K: j) adifferential fee was increased by almost 20% last year. Add to this,  
the fact that the university housing has no more space for newcomers  
5 c2 W" g  `* N) j& S/ @and most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were  
/ ?* t7 ?! l# R0 N$ M8 z) I6 Oasked to look for a residence on open market.

While the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
increased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
! R, J+ B  a! z1 n/ T& Y' Gexactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
' [! c5 t/ `$ f! c0 c. s- Madmission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
3 a: P0 n: V$ _" W) ctuition 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  
% o& N/ Y2 D0 s! K% S2 Ngetting 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  
from different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
students are the main pillars of research work at the university.

% C. e8 R, a$ t9 ]+ p4 jMy objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
! c/ `  H7 i" _4 S8 T  F: Zis 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.
  ]& I# \" x5 Z5 WThank 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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