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When arrived to Edmonton to start my graduate studies on 2004, me and  
$ n$ S/ X: Q2 o) P  |9 a8 Mmy 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
  
the current price look at this link  
# i! J3 p( \; g$ X9 uhttp://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
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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, y3 O8 ^" k$ y5 B9 yOther costs of leaving have also increased and the university  
8 V: p- q2 M) y4 Y" z" L$ dincreases the tuition fee by few percent every year and international  
* n( p( r! @+ n  l+ S% W* Vdifferential 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  
) h1 ]; E6 Y, s# fasked to look for a residence on open market.
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5 f( v2 [. Y4 g! U# ~While the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
- x# j0 I) W- k2 t9 ~increased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
" a% F8 T1 _6 e4 L) E+ Qexactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
' a- |9 ^* e4 O3 A$ ^admission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
# F3 @! N3 J- X. E6 F% ~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  
+ }8 C) S; c1 Wgetting now and I was getting 3 years ago but he or she (like all of  
) @2 r/ K- {* a  xus) has to pay twice as much as I was paying for housing when I was  
6 M% Q$ T6 u$ Y- Z* Hadmitted and has to incur at least 70% more in average living costs.

4 [( \) E) ]0 n! xAlso have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
9 W% Z  k% Z, N( G' {  sAlberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
from different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
5 B' t3 l: d8 g. o2 Cstudents are the main pillars of research work at the university.
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/ `0 M& L4 Z+ H: f; J! E+ t  RMy objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
/ a: R$ f- O* j( z" E; l1 O0 i& Qis to question the adequacy of financial aid for graduate and  
especially international students. Isn鎶� it time for the GSA to take
  
8 c, n" t4 o3 m" [0 X2 {initiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
# o" @: m' Z/ ]& dgraduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?
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Please come with your experiences and ideas.
+ d' g. Z: u  b* C. L  K: xThank 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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