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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  
# h1 H' V3 k$ {8 r2 P3 lin one of the Boardwalk's high rise buildings (Galbraith House) for  
  ?; V5 C3 o, K. g6 P' h680 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
  
the current price look at this link  
http://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
1 |2 y! I' h+ f  C1 s# R! ]1 _1 Qincrease in housing cost!

While I was paying 340CAD/month for more than a year, I鎶� paying  
600CAD/month plus utilities right now, some thing around 700CAD/month.
  
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,  
the fact that the university housing has no more space for newcomers  
* {& p$ ]3 t. Y+ Yand most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were  
asked to look for a residence on open market.

$ Q, U: ~; Q2 o# |& ]While the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
increased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
: D4 {; o* U' J5 z. Fexactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
. c0 i- @+ D/ Aadmission 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  
$ T! m5 H% f! u7 B- Oimagine that a new student gets the same amount of money that I am  
6 C# R2 g3 v1 X8 C7 z  Q3 wgetting 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  
3 U5 E, C  W: }0 e0 m5 r1 a$ x) Wadmitted and has to incur at least 70% more in average living costs.
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& o  P+ u) t$ {5 @( ?Also have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
Alberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
. b3 m" R: o7 z7 L0 o6 j0 Lfrom different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
" @% ]5 X% Y% e8 d$ W5 istudents are the main pillars of research work at the university.
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- H8 C$ M, a( {. @My objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
' i- _% s  ]$ l/ ?1 [6 [is to question the adequacy of financial aid for graduate and  
" H# R$ r; g  L  ]1 Lespecially international students. Isn鎶� it time for the GSA to take
  
initiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
- c* |* ~9 c2 I; J( qgraduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?
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0 D) y6 x5 u% YPlease 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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