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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  
$ F, K6 s; R9 Zin one of the Boardwalk's high rise buildings (Galbraith House) for  
0 a3 a7 k! M6 o: P680 CAD(everything was included), believe it or not the same apartment
  
is more than 1300 CAD now.(I still have a copy of the contract and for
  
the current price look at this link  
1 M% }9 O( Z. X$ U% @+ Bhttp://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
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.
  
Other 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,  
the fact that the university housing has no more space for newcomers  
4 E8 X, S. T* w8 I' Xand most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were  
asked to look for a residence on open market.

, w) Q1 n- I5 T! a1 y9 t1 eWhile the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
increased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
exactly 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  
tuition fee and taxes). To make the argument easy to understand just  
7 t0 {7 V/ S( B- O( t2 G* ]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  
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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7 S; f* z4 w) [" y, }+ VAlso have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
0 u- K6 u( k2 Z3 OAlberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
9 `6 p8 P/ f! U! V  c" ^from different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
2 I% h5 v$ t+ q# h0 Ostudents are the main pillars of research work at the university.
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" k, {1 c1 \7 ~) i$ bMy objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
3 y) X3 ^+ p0 e& H3 M, }is 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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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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+ B* _6 a/ {5 G7 y! A# J( l  @Please come with your experiences and ideas.
" m/ V$ s  r, e: T& c$ n- [Thank 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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