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man888

When arrived to Edmonton to start my graduate studies on 2004, me and  
; A) |  }, Q# O8 N1 A2 T8 g. A7 ymy friend rented a very nice, spacious and shiny 2-bedroom apartment  
: I& n- @; O/ s" hin one of the Boardwalk's high rise buildings (Galbraith House) for  
680 CAD(everything was included), believe it or not the same apartment
  
is 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!

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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( @8 b# j0 I6 m) t- q: vOther costs of leaving have also increased and the university  
. }. y$ F7 Y3 l6 E  d3 ?increases the tuition fee by few percent every year and international  
: V% x) ]3 X7 w! d) b: xdifferential fee was increased by almost 20% last year. Add to this,  
9 I6 l3 c  Y" o& w, h# _! D2 _8 T3 Lthe fact that the university housing has no more space for newcomers  
and most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were  
" l+ [4 A; ^/ C* N) }6 B% X8 P. k4 {asked to look for a residence on open market.
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' t- t' {& ?/ h9 H. E7 A0 UWhile the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
3 Y4 T/ t' b8 g& `/ E0 lincreased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
4 ?" E: n1 M& S' y6 Bexactly 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  
0 D2 \# N5 S" r. \* y. Aimagine that a new student gets the same amount of money that I am  
# ~$ T* E$ I  E  g+ y/ z% h2 lgetting now and I was getting 3 years ago but he or she (like all of  
1 N7 j1 t% D5 M3 g- ~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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Also have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
Alberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
from different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
* U4 d6 U! t! Astudents are the main pillars of research work at the university.
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My 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
  
& D( {' P( {# M/ ginitiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
  ?9 h* L* ?$ |1 X! @2 [graduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?

' u& B5 p: B- F8 h7 J  BPlease come with your experiences and ideas.
Thank you all
Ali

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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