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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  
$ B! Q, q* I# g, A" `in one of the Boardwalk's high rise buildings (Galbraith House) for  
680 CAD(everything was included), believe it or not the same apartment
  
* f/ c) [6 v7 d! y  {# J2 Sis more than 1300 CAD now.(I still have a copy of the contract and for
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9 O9 ?+ E" h9 N+ @0 A" uthe current price look at this link  
http://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
) m& }; a: h7 c3 H% q/ w0 `( w2 hincrease in housing cost!
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While I was paying 340CAD/month for more than a year, I鎶� paying  
/ W1 ^/ k. N6 W" k600CAD/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  
differential fee was increased by almost 20% last year. Add to this,  
3 o# h5 \# M7 m' Ethe fact that the university housing has no more space for newcomers  
and 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  
0 s( X0 N3 v6 cincreased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
7 J/ I" ~9 q7 O  Texactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
' a% ?* l; W& Y% K( C5 zadmission 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  
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  
9 J: j9 O7 b5 A- p( ?Alberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
. C( K- o* [6 dfrom different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
" N) j% O, h+ J5 @/ g' [" c' Qstudents are the main pillars of research work at the university.

! {/ Z3 q0 `) s0 R6 P* kMy objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
0 ]& S0 U( Q; ]! vis to question the adequacy of financial aid for graduate and  
, q4 U) o; B6 d, aespecially 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  
, e) p. I5 N7 N; d$ `5 ~graduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?
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; F# Z) N7 v$ N$ R6 n5 ]7 l/ \Please come with your experiences and ideas.
Thank 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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