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man888

When arrived to Edmonton to start my graduate studies on 2004, me and  
/ Y6 b+ A4 [& x' _" }" xmy friend rented a very nice, spacious and shiny 2-bedroom apartment  
in one of the Boardwalk's high rise buildings (Galbraith House) for  
! @/ _4 S! E. b; t+ }680 CAD(everything was included), believe it or not the same apartment
  
" l+ z2 Z( b  Z4 O$ B* eis more than 1300 CAD now.(I still have a copy of the contract and for
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- w1 [7 k7 o# |8 q; g7 j' a6 Tthe current price look at this link  
http://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  
) g/ m$ J7 c+ s8 x600CAD/month plus utilities right now, some thing around 700CAD/month.
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Other costs of leaving have also increased and the university  
' n* e  E9 k- H. Y6 o4 p2 z8 ?, C6 zincreases the tuition fee by few percent every year and international  
differential fee was increased by almost 20% last year. Add to this,  
1 O' g: M* j# e+ s9 M- Cthe 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.
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5 W! C- m3 _9 u: L! k2 SWhile the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
' [+ e4 F! W: h0 [increased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
) g: t; J: y5 fexactly 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  
) H# E1 M3 T/ T, a! ]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  
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  
# r% s1 u1 P/ W# ^3 W- t, B% Radmitted 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  
. \) m+ K2 A% m# ?Alberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
9 q/ d: s* U  C# U" r6 A0 rfrom different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
0 _9 \9 e- h* y* L+ Lstudents are the main pillars of research work at the university.
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- C3 H; ^* P+ T! xMy 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
  
initiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
$ o0 G& w. i5 L& Xgraduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?
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Please come with your experiences and ideas.
8 C6 f" i* h7 ]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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