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man888

When arrived to Edmonton to start my graduate studies on 2004, me and  
3 g+ c' G* l; {8 Hmy friend rented a very nice, spacious and shiny 2-bedroom apartment  
in one of the Boardwalk's high rise buildings (Galbraith House) for  
: L' g" t, z( I, ^- ~* z680 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
  
the current price look at this link  
3 T  k0 h2 d. j  c/ [" L! ahttp://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
increase in housing cost!

- Q) Y5 g4 J' ]9 L# I$ Z/ mWhile 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  
, |9 o: ^- k& }+ Q3 jincreases the tuition fee by few percent every year and international  
, p+ @3 O& w/ v) d) t( Pdifferential fee was increased by almost 20% last year. Add to this,  
4 }) ]+ ?% I: S4 a+ Ithe fact that the university housing has no more space for newcomers  
and most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were  
' O; x( e: D: V) Aasked to look for a residence on open market.

+ `5 g4 A9 w+ L/ l0 hWhile the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
. m; v$ Y& L, z+ I! P' Eincreased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
4 O2 ]7 v) i5 l) f7 xexactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
- _6 _6 W( |) uadmission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
+ t* n+ A( B0 H0 _: }) Mtuition fee and taxes). To make the argument easy to understand just  
# {7 z' L! y" p; {2 M  m( y! f  kimagine that a new student gets the same amount of money that I am  
) a0 M% k+ l' E* ~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  
/ Y" e* N) Q' q( TAlberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
from different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
7 }# `: D* [0 `+ o# Estudents are the main pillars of research work at the university.
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$ }  q+ M# {! F. ?My objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
9 j2 U5 M, }" pis to question the adequacy of financial aid for graduate and  
* Q4 A' o% L0 Q; S1 i) despecially international students. Isn鎶� it time for the GSA to take
  
initiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
+ y8 Q: k$ f. e) h; D! \graduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?
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Please come with your experiences and ideas.
Thank you all
Ali

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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