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man888

When arrived to Edmonton to start my graduate studies on 2004, me and  
8 p! ?3 o/ x: z3 _7 Wmy friend rented a very nice, spacious and shiny 2-bedroom apartment  
in one of the Boardwalk's high rise buildings (Galbraith House) for  
* w  G9 |7 E" U3 i6 C% B' L( o680 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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the current price look at this link  
http://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
7 |- n8 f4 ^) u  Y: H6 r7 Eincrease 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.
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0 Q$ B0 B" ]9 N8 Q' E2 r) W3 yOther costs of leaving have also increased and the university  
increases the tuition fee by few percent every year and international  
7 R" v( Q+ i' F) y) W- Ydifferential fee was increased by almost 20% last year. Add to this,  
% Q0 ^; X9 g: _* s* F. g0 fthe fact that the university housing has no more space for newcomers  
and most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were  
asked to look for a residence on open market.

While the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
3 T% H- N5 J" T# Y% I. w# mincreased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
5 p- \1 F" p; r5 }7 X0 vexactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
admission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
2 l: ~" x# T: y7 y# E; u+ X=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
tuition fee and taxes). To make the argument easy to understand just  
2 t9 Z: j  q% Q3 d, r  ]imagine that a new student gets the same amount of money that I am  
& {& {4 S2 d5 l* |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  
/ ~  r! g- y- ^# wadmitted and has to incur at least 70% more in average living costs.

1 n, m4 }. O) R* C# t& z/ zAlso have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
0 V3 l7 @4 Q6 C- \5 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.
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' K; B7 g# @% D0 Q( @6 ^My objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
is to question the adequacy of financial aid for graduate and  
" g3 X4 `! m2 J2 w6 Oespecially international students. Isn鎶� it time for the GSA to take
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" ^# L, N5 H5 p& q* Y+ E+ V! P" h* k1 \initiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
graduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?

' r4 M; K- W1 l5 Y6 D1 t: R" GPlease 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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