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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  
. J1 c! n* _* Y3 H( O* {3 l680 CAD(everything was included), believe it or not the same apartment
  
* x; Q3 ^# C/ c' o) i9 iis more than 1300 CAD now.(I still have a copy of the contract and for
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4 J6 G" ]  I0 s' c- I# Bthe current price look at this link  
http://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
# K! N$ j8 r6 d; w' _$ `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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" L/ [! K, T, a; u- `( q, QOther 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,  
% Q! D* c* e8 U& R+ V' T" Ethe fact that the university housing has no more space for newcomers  
and most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were  
0 _$ R# a. W) r9 Basked to look for a residence on open market.
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While the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
0 k7 }8 d. z- Z% g) Z9 L( ?increased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
: g! B9 w' ]  \) P+ _" [exactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
admission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
" ~4 |7 `( Y. D! V6 }4 `1 n7 f" j=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
% W- H7 A+ i( _6 W* O: }tuition fee and taxes). To make the argument easy to understand just  
  I) _/ \' L* ^# c# R! P' pimagine that a new student gets the same amount of money that I am  
+ `0 B& p( y2 ^9 {0 v5 p& r) g0 mgetting 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  
3 z" h; r& w2 ]admitted and has to incur at least 70% more in average living costs.
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  p" M* D2 Z( U2 B1 ^6 x: |Also have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
# Z$ k+ t9 U8 H6 G" m8 jAlberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
from different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
/ `3 P- x. l: a5 Ystudents are the main pillars of research work at the university.

4 M0 m3 {2 N" ~. _; g7 ^6 _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
  
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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9 j2 ?! _% K, s% U+ p9 j! v% BPlease come with your experiences and ideas.
- [# o4 X8 U: C& V' M" PThank you all
Ali

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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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