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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  
in one of the Boardwalk's high rise buildings (Galbraith House) for  
6 C$ O9 S, s, Z* \9 y9 Y680 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%  
increase in housing cost!

4 \; N7 f9 D2 f/ I6 F8 m) s+ u/ g+ VWhile I was paying 340CAD/month for more than a year, I鎶� paying  
* L9 r! e& ~) Z9 g/ N/ x! h- r" H. r600CAD/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  
8 w! |, S/ ^( J2 {7 Hdifferential fee was increased by almost 20% last year. Add to this,  
6 l' V7 p. G1 w. fthe fact that the university housing has no more space for newcomers  
, `. P- f% }1 U& g) _  Xand most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were  
0 y: h; \& I- |" n9 \8 A: W4 _asked to look for a residence on open market.

( z  k/ [( m4 A9 }5 rWhile the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
! y/ e, @) H4 u& N% _; ^- Fincreased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
exactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
4 [* i; B; Y6 P& Y: Vadmission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
* n3 L6 P& c$ g8 w" h; O- @* atuition fee and taxes). To make the argument easy to understand just  
1 G+ \0 J2 t. ^2 Y" mimagine 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  
" x/ L) g5 U4 p' P8 zus) has to pay twice as much as I was paying for housing when I was  
% Y* B, h7 ?( `& Fadmitted and has to incur at least 70% more in average living costs.
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! S' f0 W; [' dAlso have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
$ v$ F3 n4 O7 V8 o% P: fAlberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
, e$ x4 s$ r/ u& }; |from different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
students are the main pillars of research work at the university.

My objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
2 C* Q( `) n. Dis to question the adequacy of financial aid for graduate and  
especially international students. Isn鎶� it time for the GSA to take
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8 @5 L0 ]. P' W* s4 [  x5 binitiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
: x" l$ M, j# \' I9 z) c6 mgraduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?

Please come with your experiences and ideas.
+ w* h) Z7 b. A) T1 wThank 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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