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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  
680 CAD(everything was included), believe it or not the same apartment
  
# N. e& [7 e( ]. S9 Jis 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  
3 F$ g/ J' m4 _) C" S; ^& D+ ihttp://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
increase in housing cost!

* @* r! ]+ D) d' 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.
  
) I) x- I* h9 A* UOther costs of leaving have also increased and the university  
increases the tuition fee by few percent every year and international  
  @4 Q6 I9 T, O0 Bdifferential fee was increased by almost 20% last year. Add to this,  
! o) M5 z* p  Y* W: z+ j/ W4 hthe 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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While the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
increased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
5 M2 O3 k2 `4 e' Dexactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
$ ]0 i. f+ u6 e. W/ Madmission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
  ^/ D5 }& y2 R! ktuition fee and taxes). To make the argument easy to understand just  
  c4 W7 }& N( G- ximagine 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  
: ~) z7 N% |$ K* Ladmitted and has to incur at least 70% more in average living costs.
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7 f; d5 L; s- m# d' r, E2 hAlso have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
$ F1 r) u, w: C, s; rAlberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
+ N7 ^6 V' L, B4 tfrom different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
* K/ j* c( b. M! J  pstudents are the main pillars of research work at the university.

My objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
8 E$ W3 t3 M* f6 ~is to question the adequacy of financial aid for graduate and  
( c( Y' }2 j# L$ p  yespecially international students. Isn鎶� it time for the GSA to take
  
' c+ j0 ]; X' linitiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
graduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?
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5 `4 y* H2 x; B4 h2 F! \6 Q  ePlease come with your experiences and ideas.
. K3 x# v) ~! D* bThank 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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