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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  
1 k/ h3 V1 B2 z* B* win one of the Boardwalk's high rise buildings (Galbraith House) for  
680 CAD(everything was included), believe it or not the same apartment
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is more than 1300 CAD now.(I still have a copy of the contract and for
  
the current price look at this link  
' Y, |$ j( D$ Lhttp://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  
7 h+ k: ]) E1 [$ x$ `* e600CAD/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  
and most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were  
2 R0 y! I$ ]4 ?asked to look for a residence on open market.

- ^) m- e0 J% M2 I. }While the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
increased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
$ g3 m2 ~) P7 x, {& w( _0 ]0 q( Eexactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
/ M8 o/ A' t9 e2 |, f! e, p( I( ~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  
  Y, `! `3 x* X7 d/ F+ o/ ^% a( O' ^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  
/ I: O# v2 k7 M* P/ V% G) X+ Dus) 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.

Also have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
Alberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
5 u7 b0 Y3 ~6 }4 dfrom different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
8 [. L- _+ @+ Istudents are the main pillars of research work at the university.
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, q# y' r7 @$ l8 u2 ~6 UMy 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
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initiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
( v3 y5 K6 H& U: w) ~3 Vgraduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?
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8 ?3 R$ q, ?( cPlease come with your experiences and ideas.
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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