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When arrived to Edmonton to start my graduate studies on 2004, me and  
( l" t5 o2 q' O6 b9 z5 ?, P! rmy friend rented a very nice, spacious and shiny 2-bedroom apartment  
/ b; F# E5 F- G  v' hin one of the Boardwalk's high rise buildings (Galbraith House) for  
+ y7 M& Y9 m' e$ `( P" Y* v680 CAD(everything was included), believe it or not the same apartment
  
) \1 R: ~, |8 xis more than 1300 CAD now.(I still have a copy of the contract and for
  
the current price look at this link  
http://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
6 X* g4 {* v2 F2 ^& \8 qincrease in housing cost!

( U2 m" E6 o8 n; v: p; l+ A( ?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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Other costs of leaving have also increased and the university  
increases the tuition fee by few percent every year and international  
/ j1 W- O7 _* X8 [! m- Hdifferential fee was increased by almost 20% last year. Add to this,  
8 s" a! ]7 }) t4 l+ p. Hthe 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.

2 q7 ^! P. v# ^While the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
: `* x1 _/ Q8 }1 zincreased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
2 o6 [: f9 D- Q1 Y* O% Z& W! w: [exactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
admission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
) w0 ?: \- R) Ptuition 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  
; }! h1 O! A0 J$ |9 J( b/ Igetting now and I was getting 3 years ago but he or she (like all of  
2 h- M$ S: }4 J3 P3 U% Wus) has to pay twice as much as I was paying for housing when I was  
" ^: [! H( s9 Wadmitted and has to incur at least 70% more in average living costs.
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Also have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
7 ]9 {5 c6 d7 H+ }# M% }# e' uAlberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
1 R1 B" J8 t, t$ X2 A: G  U" Bfrom different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
: O: P6 Q- s: [0 j" c# ustudents are the main pillars of research work at the university.

/ W+ F: r+ d. j  x+ FMy 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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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.
2 m% {1 o) Z& fThank 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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