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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  
, C# M6 `8 R; g+ ain one of the Boardwalk's high rise buildings (Galbraith House) for  
680 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
  
0 p5 e4 F, v/ v/ p8 M8 T  cthe current price look at this link  
( C( H8 p& p) U: d) ?2 Nhttp://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
6 P3 o( b) a2 p7 ]% _increase in housing cost!
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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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3 W) W1 G6 M6 AOther costs of leaving have also increased and the university  
7 L# z" N8 ^/ S2 m7 Oincreases 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  
5 k. L. @3 J( N2 yasked to look for a residence on open market.

While the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
; j" n! y! P2 Dincreased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
exactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
0 Y( T8 d, u3 ]+ o: u1 o: ]( x( b# k) `admission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
. J. a; p( R0 w/ P) V0 z=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
* O4 F+ H8 U, i/ t" @) ]tuition fee and taxes). To make the argument easy to understand just  
' a  B. o! s) o0 o0 `* J: Pimagine 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  
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.
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8 x8 }+ m1 C4 R0 @Also have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
! x: P: k7 b# `; z/ SAlberta 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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My objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
+ P* w7 L, t/ ^$ S6 ]  Xis to question the adequacy of financial aid for graduate and  
) m7 G1 R+ i& G1 v& O1 Mespecially international students. Isn鎶� it time for the GSA to take
  
8 Z! |' V1 o4 a; B+ ?: x" v% @4 Ainitiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
, D) U  W$ f. }! jgraduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?

( @& }6 ?' O: f6 g8 b5 A& W7 S# |Please come with your experiences and ideas.
Thank you all
# L# ^" ~( ~% S# \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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