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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  
in 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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* z8 ~/ K& M) \: p" }, k6 w4 cthe current price look at this link  
http://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
increase in housing cost!

. e6 a6 Y' u, n$ }While I was paying 340CAD/month for more than a year, I鎶� paying  
* }1 @/ g+ Q9 i3 C600CAD/month plus utilities right now, some thing around 700CAD/month.
  
1 t/ ~8 _- O8 {; Z& ?  {Other costs of leaving have also increased and the university  
1 z5 H2 d1 F/ b7 y( ]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  
0 z  Z8 w" @; y  M+ @% D% sand 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  
3 H$ M. u5 y3 O; h! @+ x/ Vincreased 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  
=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
# u: |* S/ l+ O# N% ?0 Stuition 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  
' ]1 p/ w& F% J, W5 ]' Aus) 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.
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Also have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
Alberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
from different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
students are the main pillars of research work at the university.
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8 E8 d/ k' R) {1 _- iMy 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
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initiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
graduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?

2 Y$ `' C8 ^: l! u" h' a  YPlease come with your experiences and ideas.
" w( q) d  u" u- w  l7 FThank 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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