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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  
0 l. g* }, B; F# ^, win one of the Boardwalk's high rise buildings (Galbraith House) for  
680 CAD(everything was included), believe it or not the same apartment
  
7 }( r+ l7 ^- l$ |3 \is 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  
# O2 g' @7 D) j4 s1 G4 hhttp://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
increase in housing cost!
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While I was paying 340CAD/month for more than a year, I鎶� paying  
5 J8 O2 |% m2 y, ]5 h3 F600CAD/month plus utilities right now, some thing around 700CAD/month.
  
' t, H1 h$ j. c' z3 u5 F6 ^$ 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,  
8 @  B0 @4 X1 Z, `- O3 ]the fact that the university housing has no more space for newcomers  
+ I, |$ `2 @4 B/ f- sand most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were  
* u3 ]# o" W. V, \; }2 {# ~4 Oasked to look for a residence on open market.

# @9 c0 B4 B) n: ^( b5 e; Y  [While the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
  ?5 B6 R1 o* m4 U- Oincreased 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  
( w0 X9 |4 j3 c. b8 |=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
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  
0 U1 P$ ?' S; y1 [+ kus) 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.

2 m8 ^; d; x! Q, k( X: `: NAlso have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
3 I0 Z6 Q* k8 Z, l3 tAlberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
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students are the main pillars of research work at the university.

My objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
9 g, E: D5 @! O1 Ris 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?

/ v- U: l) b# N; c6 i1 U9 N) D" ~; r% PPlease 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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