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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  
/ Y5 n  c: a0 K680 CAD(everything was included), believe it or not the same apartment
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0 n$ U. b, `" P7 @& Sis 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  
/ v1 P5 o# @2 uhttp://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
increase in housing cost!

( D* }: Q, X$ S, Z1 Y/ Q; KWhile I was paying 340CAD/month for more than a year, I鎶� paying  
) D% i0 [& r; n, k0 l600CAD/month plus utilities right now, some thing around 700CAD/month.
  
/ c/ [/ X7 J+ t: k# JOther costs of leaving have also increased and the university  
: H9 {2 d' ?4 N. K* Iincreases the tuition fee by few percent every year and international  
2 H. c7 L; V) H! o: ]0 mdifferential fee was increased by almost 20% last year. Add to this,  
- o3 l' Y8 J- a3 \/ I4 U$ N7 Rthe 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.

5 K, d. Q: X( b; j- V3 n- g7 H7 IWhile the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
increased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
" t- ]; K0 h7 S2 G# x7 G, bexactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
/ a) y& s4 [$ T3 V1 s$ A3 i7 N! Dadmission 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  
" @0 G  D* g9 H, D  a4 yus) has to pay twice as much as I was paying for housing when I was  
$ Y4 L, a. l4 v& i6 Aadmitted and has to incur at least 70% more in average living costs.
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# b( L9 c% {/ mAlso have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of  
Alberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants  
0 G. R1 s2 F. H; Pfrom different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate  
9 T% `: h0 y& q& j+ s# f4 i8 j8 Xstudents are the main pillars of research work at the university.
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& {/ S2 C4 A0 q$ nMy 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
  
initiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
( I2 Y5 x+ h# D' Mgraduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?
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Please come with your experiences and ideas.
& y7 D$ ]" a$ B2 ~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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