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man888

When arrived to Edmonton to start my graduate studies on 2004, me and  
; d2 [0 Y! F# I  ?my friend rented a very nice, spacious and shiny 2-bedroom apartment  
in one of the Boardwalk's high rise buildings (Galbraith House) for  
' [0 Z* C) Q$ s$ w: O680 CAD(everything was included), believe it or not the same apartment
  
/ q" w3 I) |5 E2 g* C& m' X: ois 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%  
increase in housing cost!

' t% z) R# e' r' y% v' c4 ~+ p$ h+ RWhile 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  
- p; |, Z0 e5 x: Oincreases the tuition fee by few percent every year and international  
' T2 X. c5 w) v6 P/ E& [1 q, o4 idifferential fee was increased by almost 20% last year. Add to this,  
6 C) E# S5 Q4 q" K& [the fact that the university housing has no more space for newcomers  
and most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were  
# [  W# z4 p4 V* o! u* s# }/ casked to look for a residence on open market.

$ ~9 F" T7 ~4 E: I& ]5 F# JWhile the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
5 N: B3 N) O$ e- mincreased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
. v3 X! A6 k- V7 P3 aexactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
admission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
2 `* j* _- h) H5 `' o, M=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
tuition fee and taxes). To make the argument easy to understand just  
( \$ L, ?/ ~, E! m* nimagine that a new student gets the same amount of money that I am  
$ j7 T' W, k0 W9 p) d) i; M/ T. Ogetting 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.

7 y7 K; ]& G) r5 E8 I* OAlso 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  
7 m1 a3 c1 z3 u3 Q! Wstudents are the main pillars of research work at the university.
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My objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
' s  z5 P5 O& c$ ?: S) U& _8 mis to question the adequacy of financial aid for graduate and  
especially international students. Isn鎶� it time for the GSA to take
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initiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
2 n! m1 l- `( U8 u4 V: B% [graduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?
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Please come with your experiences and ideas.
# {+ Z3 b5 I$ N; n4 sThank 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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