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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  
680 CAD(everything was included), believe it or not the same apartment
  
* G  b7 ^! b4 E* U2 o9 Gis more than 1300 CAD now.(I still have a copy of the contract and for
  
8 ]- J( K& v5 Z. ethe current price look at this link  
0 L& x8 c4 w7 [9 \4 hhttp://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
increase in housing cost!
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/ j  g5 q! ?5 t# \& y$ M9 H4 P- ZWhile I was paying 340CAD/month for more than a year, I鎶� paying  
: {% W2 c6 d( D; j" F, K- G600CAD/month plus utilities right now, some thing around 700CAD/month.
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Other costs of leaving have also increased and the university  
  T+ d) l; i, [, B5 d8 ^increases the tuition fee by few percent every year and international  
  J6 E% D1 `; D2 T; z- t1 qdifferential 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  
6 m* U# N2 ~; Xasked to look for a residence on open market.
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While the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
increased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
exactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
admission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
) d0 r. K/ ]- _. O5 w# \: `=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
: i$ u7 _$ ?4 g/ d. J2 ?! P/ C; K) ituition 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  
getting now and I was getting 3 years ago but he or she (like all of  
8 v, Q; @# a: l" G" Xus) 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.
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& s0 e# u' S0 R' f% r1 T, EAlso have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
6 V8 j8 Y+ _: A4 zAlberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
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- |8 X: G/ B# l+ I% p6 U# lstudents are the main pillars of research work at the university.
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% W& S( Q7 q) xMy objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
/ i) d" k& v& b! Z4 `5 fis to question the adequacy of financial aid for graduate and  
7 d# I0 Y0 m; Bespecially international students. Isn鎶� it time for the GSA to take
  
( T/ L, m' K2 x7 Y( B6 C: pinitiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
graduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?
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& `3 m* \5 W! w" n. x! }Please come with your experiences and ideas.
! V/ W* `9 i/ uThank 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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