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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
  
/ k$ X; u5 I9 {8 T7 Y: K! H: Qthe 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  
600CAD/month plus utilities right now, some thing around 700CAD/month.
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3 Y. n6 b: @+ {6 k2 H# FOther costs of leaving have also increased and the university  
0 S4 ?; j0 N2 M8 \) kincreases 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  
and most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were  
6 c; O- O5 @, G1 {+ V) B! Hasked to look for a residence on open market.

7 Z7 R6 U) ]) n2 A+ `While the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
& B& r! M& e( Z) Y) Y% Oincreased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
- J& N) E5 l) i9 @& mexactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
admission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
- k: q7 R: v0 T4 J9 i0 ?=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
0 c( v" J' o3 l) u" K  u& O# R' B6 ltuition fee and taxes). To make the argument easy to understand just  
0 d$ q/ a* O1 a6 v  I  Y% mimagine 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  
admitted and has to incur at least 70% more in average living costs.
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  C$ }! S" ^: ~: x7 ]& |+ ]Also have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
3 n4 a8 O4 R& `9 N- l0 x0 qAlberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
from different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
students are the main pillars of research work at the university.
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# k" M- h9 G. |0 [) OMy 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  
graduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?

0 S% u; V0 `; F- @, LPlease come with your experiences and ideas.
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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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