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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
  
! k% ~8 h/ E9 e; ]! Z9 I5 Fis more than 1300 CAD now.(I still have a copy of the contract and for
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: I$ S  y8 @8 y2 ythe current price look at this link  
4 H4 y' m& [# nhttp://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
  C! n# k+ C# p5 u8 Zincrease 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.
  
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,  
4 g& d; N7 _1 B5 |6 Z1 D2 Kthe fact that the university housing has no more space for newcomers  
and most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were  
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While the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
increased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
* H1 B/ A6 c: v. o% x; }exactly 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  
tuition fee and taxes). To make the argument easy to understand just  
; N% s" `; j5 ]1 Vimagine 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  
4 a% u* \( ]$ R7 qadmitted and has to incur at least 70% more in average living costs.

9 }& o# `" s8 G0 G1 Y9 CAlso have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
Alberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
$ P. K9 j5 O2 _& y/ H6 _" hfrom different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
students are the main pillars of research work at the university.

) G0 H0 a( _% }My objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
% e$ y+ e  w# ^* P5 Ois to question the adequacy of financial aid for graduate and  
* E8 b' H" ^4 p0 v. L: g, vespecially international students. Isn鎶� it time for the GSA to take
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: H7 e/ K$ ^6 c. dinitiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
2 S0 T* G6 H! {; d% c; C# \. zgraduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?

Please come with your experiences and ideas.
3 r2 @( t% s2 d5 f! _% [Thank you all
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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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