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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  
; T. U! g, I2 `0 i* [in one of the Boardwalk's high rise buildings (Galbraith House) for  
680 CAD(everything was included), believe it or not the same apartment
  
8 t/ R3 j% u+ W4 b3 v; E9 I2 U$ _is more than 1300 CAD now.(I still have a copy of the contract and for
  
the current price look at this link  
4 y1 K% {0 m' S! \: mhttp://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
4 a4 S: a* W" I! a/ d9 |- J2 Qincrease in housing cost!
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. X: U( w3 B2 _0 xWhile I was paying 340CAD/month for more than a year, I鎶� paying  
600CAD/month plus utilities right now, some thing around 700CAD/month.
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0 b* M- Z0 [) b7 E0 _Other costs of leaving have also increased and the university  
0 B+ P% w  x8 G+ Xincreases the tuition fee by few percent every year and international  
% M2 w3 @' B% j" X& Ddifferential fee was increased by almost 20% last year. Add to this,  
9 @2 H2 r$ G- K5 C  v3 q1 A7 Wthe fact that the university housing has no more space for newcomers  
and most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were  
; r/ I& M1 f% Y  rasked to look for a residence on open market.
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While the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
) L) B2 H# K1 b7 e; b/ ]  i( H, nincreased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
! [5 Y- B- l8 m3 eexactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
admission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
4 }. v% c/ C& b! v  P* N; o=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
tuition fee and taxes). To make the argument easy to understand just  
: r! H) `& {, simagine that a new student gets the same amount of money that I am  
( K, N4 R! G) |' u* B% B! B, Vgetting 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  
( s2 i5 |# r/ x4 y2 Y! sadmitted and has to incur at least 70% more in average living costs.

1 r1 c6 v" s" q7 {9 @1 `Also have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
5 t4 m* `% r( ?0 G8 FAlberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
% S5 u2 k* p" O. {from different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
$ V0 Y4 z# V3 v$ ?students are the main pillars of research work at the university.

My objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
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especially international students. Isn鎶� it time for the GSA to take
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' I# {/ o2 y5 `* z( ?8 V3 i% Dinitiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
& u+ _6 t5 P. Q3 \) U/ Dgraduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?
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Please come with your experiences and ideas.
, s' `) g3 f' @8 t7 W) y  o* uThank 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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