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man888

When arrived to Edmonton to start my graduate studies on 2004, me and  
1 ?9 f9 Y; x1 F0 ]. ~9 imy friend rented a very nice, spacious and shiny 2-bedroom apartment  
& T6 S, R4 W. j% i5 J! A. yin 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
  
- D+ J( q  G/ @3 _the current price look at this link  
http://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
# S- f; G  }2 T. ]increase in housing cost!

0 s7 l! g1 n% P& AWhile I was paying 340CAD/month for more than a year, I鎶� paying  
3 r0 f9 e* ]5 z/ o! H  ~600CAD/month plus utilities right now, some thing around 700CAD/month.
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Other costs of leaving have also increased and the university  
/ h3 s( n. O: t& K7 y" Z! Fincreases the tuition fee by few percent every year and international  
7 [9 K% B) c( hdifferential 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  
# T# ]0 X* H0 f' }) }9 easked to look for a residence on open market.

While the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
3 y2 |4 V# t& ~+ M" K' tincreased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
exactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
3 U: |$ ~0 O( E' y5 Z; j. kadmission 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  
imagine that a new student gets the same amount of money that I am  
- a, v( V5 B) c2 t* C8 |" kgetting 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  
; e" s9 U" f3 vadmitted and has to incur at least 70% more in average living costs.
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Also have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
; i1 i5 W: `% yAlberta 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.
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5 Q+ F% m0 O% T+ Q9 Z) K& dMy 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
  
; X6 O6 Y4 ~7 r( _% Rinitiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
graduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?
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Please come with your experiences and ideas.
- ~: p4 I& s+ }2 w6 Y/ j% B- G$ dThank 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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