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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
  
0 T9 ?! G0 f5 R) fis 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  
, h6 X! W/ `' A8 R0 A. D0 G& Shttp://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
increase in housing cost!

While I was paying 340CAD/month for more than a year, I鎶� paying  
7 E1 @# H- P7 `1 e600CAD/month plus utilities right now, some thing around 700CAD/month.
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Other costs of leaving have also increased and the university  
- e9 d1 z6 v  }8 L; u: ~6 Kincreases 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  
4 Y; ~+ q8 ^) B( ^2 Z+ N4 yand 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  
) L# n" i, ~% W9 Q) l% j# yincreased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
exactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
! U" B4 g: C) c6 i8 I+ c, ^1 a: i) v" i; qadmission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
8 n8 m% l( p+ htuition fee and taxes). To make the argument easy to understand just  
: A8 _- C2 o) Y2 @6 Oimagine that a new student gets the same amount of money that I am  
% F; E' @' ]1 i3 A1 z; Egetting now and I was getting 3 years ago but he or she (like all of  
& s8 Y: J, d& x3 X) k8 A  L/ z0 |( f1 mus) has to pay twice as much as I was paying for housing when I was  
1 n, `/ u, B7 u, B: [+ Kadmitted 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  
8 F0 C" Z: A( U, o# z: r+ ^2 mAlberta 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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+ V# D) a& g% e  s% \* y' AMy objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
! \8 |( {# N# ?2 yis 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?
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0 y+ [$ D; x( D: j& wPlease come with your experiences and ideas.
0 R/ M" b) c! {3 X8 }; k, ^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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