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When arrived to Edmonton to start my graduate studies on 2004, me and  
) _2 u8 n5 w$ mmy friend rented a very nice, spacious and shiny 2-bedroom apartment  
# H2 r9 ~4 T4 F: yin one of the Boardwalk's high rise buildings (Galbraith House) for  
0 N1 r& k+ ~" l, A; M- X680 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
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the current price look at this link  
http://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
, y6 a" r$ {" p+ w/ iincrease in housing cost!

While I was paying 340CAD/month for more than a year, I鎶� paying  
/ p7 T: O) {; X* }  L, l600CAD/month plus utilities right now, some thing around 700CAD/month.
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, V! r* x/ h5 ^/ \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,  
, K; k# S" p* \6 E% {, _/ V& n3 G' i8 bthe fact that the university housing has no more space for newcomers  
+ I0 Z& s) T; h# land most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were  
asked to look for a residence on open market.
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While 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  
, {) Z! h" U- e0 \1 D- g" w; C=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  
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.

Also have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
; @6 v6 S/ Q' I2 m- C6 _* p$ MAlberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
+ {7 u$ B" }9 I; m4 D, ?! Xfrom different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
students are the main pillars of research work at the university.
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% n3 ]5 S7 a: [+ K8 S. UMy objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
5 f: a  M4 m$ D- h: B/ s/ tis 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  
! v( ~7 N8 o: M# G7 d; |$ L1 _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
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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