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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  
* \- M4 T7 P5 ]* v0 n2 Hin one of the Boardwalk's high rise buildings (Galbraith House) for  
" r2 o! \/ E7 ?8 ~680 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
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) j' z' Z0 E/ g7 h  N' p4 C2 ithe current price look at this link  
http://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  
+ z% D2 K- f8 `0 S% Y8 C( Z600CAD/month plus utilities right now, some thing around 700CAD/month.
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$ u9 P( L; L) r+ kOther costs of leaving have also increased and the university  
9 c3 R; @' e) p& i6 K7 E  Zincreases the tuition fee by few percent every year and international  
differential fee was increased by almost 20% last year. Add to this,  
/ k5 h# C1 `/ Q/ ]) Nthe fact that the university housing has no more space for newcomers  
and most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were  
8 ]  M  o# A! B1 \& U1 m+ pasked to look for a residence on open market.

While the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
0 y. S/ W1 R6 ?8 T" e# u+ sincreased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
9 g7 C* H6 q, E' w: @+ zexactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
; |% d7 ^5 D% K, Z, ?6 n) x* D3 _admission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
4 i0 P7 v; l* J% @: w/ w0 x=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after  
) [- y: B5 Z, o' E: ~9 N% |# Y" ~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  
0 O3 S8 L/ P0 l2 fus) has to pay twice as much as I was paying for housing when I was  
. `! U$ ^9 Z. i$ b) @admitted and has to incur at least 70% more in average living costs.
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' k  g/ C6 N3 v* oAlso have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
Alberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
( V% ]5 N- K! w+ O5 [" Sfrom different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
students are the main pillars of research work at the university.

My objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
) f: D1 m6 D  T( d, L5 zis 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?

" x# |. c$ F/ s4 e- o+ QPlease come with your experiences and ideas.
  I! s: s; k9 W# j2 w) MThank 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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