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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  
! K- ?# A4 h1 T- s1 ?3 Yin one of the Boardwalk's high rise buildings (Galbraith House) for  
( p4 }) r! R7 B4 A+ y  E1 v9 W680 CAD(everything was included), believe it or not the same apartment
  
6 B% d9 R1 w) z. v2 Q* E/ his more than 1300 CAD now.(I still have a copy of the contract and for
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; Q0 I1 c" T* C" y! Athe current price look at this link  
http://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
7 C1 @3 W/ |) o4 H3 k0 G; H; b. Y: c: oincrease in housing cost!

( t  C) }# c' Q; uWhile I was paying 340CAD/month for more than a year, I鎶� paying  
600CAD/month plus utilities right now, some thing around 700CAD/month.
  
5 B( @$ q  V, _7 SOther costs of leaving have also increased and the university  
" F" c- A, b9 @increases the tuition fee by few percent every year and international  
differential fee was increased by almost 20% last year. Add to this,  
7 [1 X) `3 w- R5 o; v7 A( Ithe fact that the university housing has no more space for newcomers  
and most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were  
) T# ?5 r: Z$ ]& V1 z' s+ \8 Y' {asked to look for a residence on open market.
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4 e; O- t6 t2 V$ B! kWhile the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
# g. ~& T; y4 V: O3 |$ oincreased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
exactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
( g9 B% u9 ]% _8 s2 oadmission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
3 f; r3 |4 c8 E=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
* G+ P$ ^* h: y+ w  R* k0 s& ituition fee and taxes). To make the argument easy to understand just  
imagine that a new student gets the same amount of money that I am  
, y& E1 H3 y" i* b0 @& D/ f, Ugetting 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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Also have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
( G5 N. q3 r6 N, ^$ uAlberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
+ t6 }6 S, S/ f0 i5 r! v; u  gfrom different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
students are the main pillars of research work at the university.
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$ ^. R) _+ x1 J- R+ RMy objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
, U7 {8 e& `2 ^" t2 yis to question the adequacy of financial aid for graduate and  
/ U, N0 d( V- k7 D* e: gespecially international students. Isn鎶� it time for the GSA to take
  
initiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
& n$ v2 o; w- K! B" ~+ g; igraduate 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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