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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  
/ X9 _5 h& [( P4 iin one of the Boardwalk's high rise buildings (Galbraith House) for  
5 O+ G. P9 v7 C6 \/ p; D680 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
  
+ J- q; U. H& f) t- Gthe current price look at this link  
7 Q$ R. D# Q( e% Zhttp://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
increase in housing cost!

While I was paying 340CAD/month for more than a year, I鎶� paying  
# A4 T! w6 d% ?) ]600CAD/month plus utilities right now, some thing around 700CAD/month.
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+ L" o5 c8 U9 p9 ]6 o  a3 XOther costs of leaving have also increased and the university  
0 f1 a3 L7 z; j& o- ^increases the tuition fee by few percent every year and international  
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  
; H  ^& v* W& M9 U% Rasked to look for a residence on open market.
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0 o7 P2 S! D8 `5 `While the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
$ i$ ~; b9 e8 c8 q& cincreased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
+ S( E& `4 }+ Y" Bexactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
admission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
+ |2 ~! N5 ?/ t: d. t=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
tuition 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  
' X) V, d) d0 t1 C. T3 x3 |getting now and I was getting 3 years ago but he or she (like all of  
2 E1 W/ @. Q, t2 F3 B2 s! rus) 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.

( x) t# g7 n8 b; q9 d* F* XAlso have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
5 K' ^, d7 P0 G1 eAlberta 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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& ~1 X# ^  o$ w& _% T5 d/ M& j/ lMy objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
is 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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4 c' V3 ]! {; F- ~, ]initiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
$ |+ F; \, L4 F9 Pgraduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?
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" d- i+ F7 b4 o+ Z$ Q4 W2 p( PPlease 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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