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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  
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680 CAD(everything was included), believe it or not the same apartment
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2 ^# C9 {: e# X, Kis more than 1300 CAD now.(I still have a copy of the contract and for
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% \+ C1 J8 y5 ethe current price look at this link  
http://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
; d; O, ^+ O% j$ W7 K1 K! I  Uincrease in housing cost!
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While I was paying 340CAD/month for more than a year, I鎶� paying  
" ]5 z8 j5 {! D: ]' r' q600CAD/month plus utilities right now, some thing around 700CAD/month.
  
. W! v- Z" ]0 ~) ?7 I1 `- LOther 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,  
( R( _3 O. A, v: z" jthe fact that the university housing has no more space for newcomers  
and most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were  
3 Z& s/ {% C3 f/ v- B" M; gasked to look for a residence on open market.
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' L2 s" ~9 I3 K5 i( a5 P7 WWhile the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
increased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
7 u" |0 k. N- T  _4 u6 Oexactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
admission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
  x0 w! g& {: j3 S; }tuition 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  
getting now and I was getting 3 years ago but he or she (like all of  
: G6 x% ]" ^; cus) 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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/ r- c  @2 j- f% dAlso have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
9 D0 X* l' y: R+ M$ c7 a! IAlberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
) l$ p: i2 ?/ Z2 T( cfrom different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
students are the main pillars of research work at the university.

# j5 ~2 K6 A% V" S5 @1 H2 M$ IMy objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
9 X! d! ~& k. u. R- N5 dis 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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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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