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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  
- E: l; Y7 i9 {: K% X# L3 @680 CAD(everything was included), believe it or not the same apartment
$ [9 ]$ d5 u0 l0 K4 |3 r# M  
6 n  ]3 c; b5 ^4 u- M/ y  {& y- uis more than 1300 CAD now.(I still have a copy of the contract and for
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/ d7 U* _& Z) T1 x; ~4 w) ~the current price look at this link  
http://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
increase in housing cost!

) g4 k2 @( t: M6 [, ^! S0 MWhile I was paying 340CAD/month for more than a year, I鎶� paying  
600CAD/month plus utilities right now, some thing around 700CAD/month.
  
; J9 e) V, B9 O1 R+ YOther costs of leaving have also increased and the university  
increases the tuition fee by few percent every year and international  
3 a4 |2 W; v9 I: ^+ Sdifferential fee was increased by almost 20% last year. Add to this,  
7 ?! L# E; q2 Y" `' g$ Q9 dthe fact that the university housing has no more space for newcomers  
and most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were  
asked to look for a residence on open market.
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* G3 h8 ]; p1 N: a" Q- N$ b" @, MWhile the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
  }. z1 n# d1 f# lincreased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
; Q/ W6 l$ i' m' m7 A; I( Aexactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
) b1 l  Q/ u6 Q3 I( V* sadmission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
% _) \1 X# m  q* [6 O2 h9 m/ ^+ [tuition fee and taxes). To make the argument easy to understand just  
1 x* |' J$ i. _6 @( Timagine 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  
admitted and has to incur at least 70% more in average living costs.

. C& \9 S+ m- qAlso have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
Alberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
, U/ M9 ]3 y0 w4 ffrom different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
students are the main pillars of research work at the university.

1 T/ A6 g5 l6 u" ]- Y- d$ v8 cMy objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
- U$ _3 }, R4 r9 S# Nis 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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& B. M5 }6 r' ]# |$ }/ K5 ninitiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
! `* X1 ], w: y2 [3 Ugraduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?

Please come with your experiences and ideas.
3 Y7 f( b5 ]8 m! |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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