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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  
# O' n2 n7 m. }8 v. j& w4 y680 CAD(everything was included), believe it or not the same apartment
  
* ^# G2 _/ P- x- q! D" Lis more than 1300 CAD now.(I still have a copy of the contract and for
  
the current price look at this link  
http://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
increase in housing cost!
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& J) U6 ^8 w  o& a' w5 GWhile I was paying 340CAD/month for more than a year, I鎶� paying  
3 i8 ^5 h+ N" R  F8 ]600CAD/month plus utilities right now, some thing around 700CAD/month.
  
/ I. O% G7 R- w$ h3 k5 WOther costs of leaving have also increased and the university  
& j- H# v' O" S# iincreases 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  
  B% D' Y" B* F$ H8 N% xasked to look for a residence on open market.

While the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
4 s( ~( _4 p, t5 t0 Qincreased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
exactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
admission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
' K. I. c2 I) H; g( |4 |=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
tuition fee and taxes). To make the argument easy to understand just  
3 T' t# U& [  \/ Q8 F/ [2 yimagine 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  
, A& o8 p9 {2 U: @. }0 xadmitted and has to incur at least 70% more in average living costs.

Also have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
, v. j" x# t* X& AAlberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
from different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
, B" A& c6 s4 Q3 ]: X# j! H6 Hstudents are the main pillars of research work at the university.
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7 [7 y. q4 x* q- f) ]9 R# mMy objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
2 {1 o9 S( u" k# @& Y, \is to question the adequacy of financial aid for graduate and  
* Z! R7 E+ x2 N6 xespecially 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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Please come with your experiences and ideas.
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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