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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  
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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is more than 1300 CAD now.(I still have a copy of the contract and for
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  C8 O1 q% u. T* p# {3 Z/ F! Zthe current price look at this link  
8 C6 Q$ d& w1 s7 mhttp://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
; X9 J/ |0 l% Wincrease 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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7 U) {5 L  b. t' n" }Other costs of leaving have also increased and the university  
% Y  Q2 G5 A$ Y5 X0 v. @! ]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  
- ?+ u0 r( I8 V" i9 xand most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were  
. h$ u% w& }7 E) z0 t+ Sasked to look for a residence on open market.

While the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
increased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
2 _: O" s% S& e6 t/ aexactly 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  
2 d0 a7 i" ^/ \; E3 R4 rtuition 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  
, N* z2 f8 x0 m# `4 }7 x% p% }+ e1 Fgetting now and I was getting 3 years ago but he or she (like all of  
6 J$ G& \0 N1 Q- o; I+ t3 d( U% rus) has to pay twice as much as I was paying for housing when I was  
8 G+ G4 ]3 p* n% U. vadmitted 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  
# ]; d9 b" V* t: L) O: GAlberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
from different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
7 g0 ^( t) A/ ~# g! q3 L# Cstudents are the main pillars of research work at the university.

, m) H( ^" U$ ?9 U5 `4 X6 n' IMy objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
8 X! ^4 |* v: O' Z6 m" nis 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  
graduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?
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- @. ]8 N% H* g# ^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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