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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  
- S0 j% V  z, {+ W) rin one of the Boardwalk's high rise buildings (Galbraith House) for  
4 _# ?: S: Y2 m1 z; Q2 D! Q) f680 CAD(everything was included), believe it or not the same apartment
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2 l# ^6 _' x6 ]+ C1 C  Yis more than 1300 CAD now.(I still have a copy of the contract and for
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# u$ l1 g! [& D9 `) j4 Fthe current price look at this link  
% N2 H+ h9 F" x( G5 j+ f( ~http://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
increase in housing cost!

: u8 g$ ~# `$ y) v) J; LWhile I was paying 340CAD/month for more than a year, I鎶� paying  
600CAD/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  
5 V) o- Z5 T/ i+ {differential fee was increased by almost 20% last year. Add to this,  
the 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.

# D/ c- Z! U8 ]4 xWhile the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
( o4 Y, A& h; D9 _7 \increased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
exactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
# E7 H8 `7 b5 w% {8 S* Y& Hadmission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
" D' K* t, M9 Z& W& |6 otuition 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  
! t0 b1 B8 @) pgetting 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.

( V5 R) n' d/ p: k# zAlso have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
Alberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
/ H  {; p$ u% _- L; Z- C0 dfrom different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
students are the main pillars of research work at the university.

, p! @) k$ F3 J  W1 l- c# Y) BMy objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
# V8 a1 R6 T4 y( E% }1 i( Z3 A) 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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initiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
graduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?

Please come with your experiences and ideas.
Thank you all
; e2 x2 H. v7 E! }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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