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man888

When arrived to Edmonton to start my graduate studies on 2004, me and  
8 }: i. C5 }' r% amy friend rented a very nice, spacious and shiny 2-bedroom apartment  
. w3 L; [+ u6 Ein one of the Boardwalk's high rise buildings (Galbraith House) for  
- F8 h8 w& P1 i$ a7 u$ a680 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
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the current price look at this link  
http://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
2 j! _, @" D' a5 rincrease in housing cost!

* D  v9 n: d$ R7 t2 w) lWhile I was paying 340CAD/month for more than a year, I鎶� paying  
% [/ ?) c4 ?0 C2 E) f) z600CAD/month plus utilities right now, some thing around 700CAD/month.
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4 p. w6 b2 V+ C6 p; ]Other costs of leaving have also increased and the university  
increases the tuition fee by few percent every year and international  
4 D9 s0 @- e5 D  G, L7 c4 d4 {7 c5 ldifferential fee was increased by almost 20% last year. Add to this,  
+ ]& `" C5 I" q# z0 E/ Gthe fact that the university housing has no more space for newcomers  
and most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were  
! M) w1 n+ q/ A( X0 yasked to look for a residence on open market.

While the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
9 T8 [' Y8 n$ m: z: l$ fincreased 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% N2 U7 `0 o+ ?- }=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
  b# ]5 \: B" Ftuition 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  
* {7 o7 @) B1 q7 ius) 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  
/ {0 `. E) k6 N5 x- w4 a' y# X" l$ rfrom different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
students are the main pillars of research work at the university.

My objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
6 G' P6 H( d* G! P/ c# `is to question the adequacy of financial aid for graduate and  
especially international students. Isn鎶� it time for the GSA to take
  
initiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
graduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?

  E* }! y9 W3 KPlease come with your experiences and ideas.
6 X* j& ]3 A3 _6 U. g. t4 B% CThank 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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