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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
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" ^. t3 a. y( @* P$ c8 ^( a1 A$ Wis more than 1300 CAD now.(I still have a copy of the contract and for
  
" [1 m/ v0 _5 L$ S" l6 nthe current price look at this link  
# x8 L  P3 [' R/ F" m- h$ U" Whttp://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  
600CAD/month plus utilities right now, some thing around 700CAD/month.
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+ j6 {! c& Z4 M6 W. z2 I4 L2 R) g: UOther costs of leaving have also increased and the university  
increases the tuition fee by few percent every year and international  
, @; p- M  x4 M6 I5 c1 m/ q& Udifferential fee was increased by almost 20% last year. Add to this,  
$ V. T8 Q% r2 c1 x' wthe fact that the university housing has no more space for newcomers  
and most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were  
% g# }  o7 _1 L" h# fasked to look for a residence on open market.

6 l5 [5 ^; r: \8 E* h* dWhile the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
% [6 x; S4 ^, d  wincreased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
exactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
2 ~* j* B3 x4 }+ badmission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
+ [$ r$ |( A: f. D9 F$ l: W: m=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
tuition fee and taxes). To make the argument easy to understand just  
; `) i* \  v( e3 I% X; m) I& }1 Qimagine 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  
0 S6 `' K, F9 Z1 `& Sus) 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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1 h% k7 I% h, jAlso have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
Alberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
from different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
; e2 ~% w& k& O! z$ x1 I) Kstudents are the main pillars of research work at the university.

My objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
9 H! B( u7 ^! S6 k0 Gis 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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! l' l7 \0 ^4 V/ m1 ^* ^! P7 b8 Z- |initiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
graduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?

5 w! a* w) Y0 o- @Please come with your experiences and ideas.
Thank 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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