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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  
& ?$ I! T2 R/ z% a! y; tin one of the Boardwalk's high rise buildings (Galbraith House) for  
680 CAD(everything was included), believe it or not the same apartment
  
) U, X2 j+ t( W6 }* R) bis 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  
5 ?3 |7 f' X7 N3 \- g* ^http://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
increase in housing cost!
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While I was paying 340CAD/month for more than a year, I鎶� paying  
; ^; k8 ]2 p" a7 a600CAD/month plus utilities right now, some thing around 700CAD/month.
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Other costs of leaving have also increased and the university  
increases the tuition fee by few percent every year and international  
% }, @2 i0 t3 ?# U6 c* Sdifferential fee was increased by almost 20% last year. Add to this,  
5 Z# ~9 T8 J& ?; \5 othe fact that the university housing has no more space for newcomers  
and most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were  
# \7 |& h! ~0 c( O7 }asked to look for a residence on open market.

8 F7 {/ m+ h8 ~$ ?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  
  {& E. O/ F! uadmission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
, f! C# v! D$ T6 g+ ~3 e8 ?=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
tuition fee and taxes). To make the argument easy to understand just  
; o- v, C1 x' z  o& @5 limagine 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  
6 o  g' Q. c0 `admitted and has to incur at least 70% more in average living costs.

- ^3 @+ p( E) g- nAlso have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
Alberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
/ j' I; H4 [; D7 tfrom different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
0 ~; f5 V* J" |students are the main pillars of research work at the university.
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My 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
  
/ I3 _4 o) J# S8 uinitiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
' B. t3 q: K! P& u5 o9 }graduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?

$ Z9 F2 T1 w' z3 r+ I% ]' XPlease come with your experiences and ideas.
- C0 R& U' E* C+ v0 P; 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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