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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
  
% [$ M( N" Z9 E9 G) h+ Y0 D$ U3 b, dis more than 1300 CAD now.(I still have a copy of the contract and for
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the current price look at this link  
http://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
# l3 j  H; G* b6 }0 u+ vincrease in housing cost!
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& e( V+ q* {) hWhile 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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Other costs of leaving have also increased and the university  
increases the tuition fee by few percent every year and international  
differential fee was increased by almost 20% last year. Add to this,  
" L) C: T, N/ ^5 Jthe fact that the university housing has no more space for newcomers  
9 G* K2 [0 S; s1 o" _. tand most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were  
& X& Y* z( S* g8 L( Basked 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  
/ t- B+ }% y* Kexactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
admission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
6 k. F; W0 R. [0 F=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
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  
2 M, t. N+ T/ @9 K: Vgetting 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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( H- K( Z. Y2 O8 e3 O0 oAlso have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
( e* E9 t3 b1 ZAlberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
5 C0 o* F" ?& ifrom different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
students are the main pillars of research work at the university.

My objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
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especially international students. Isn鎶� it time for the GSA to take
  
0 J) j( V/ |& X& @/ x0 H1 q: A* Ginitiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
% ^+ r' m/ V" K/ y0 fgraduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?

) Z8 r3 _& ~) `/ O4 TPlease come with your experiences and ideas.
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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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