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Graduate Student

I'm approaching 30, I still live with my parents. I can't afford to buy a condo, or even to move into an apartment or buy a car. Forget...

Graduate Student

I am PhD student in Montreal. I have a doctoral scholarship from FRQS and my supervisor pays me a bonus. With all that my income is still...

Graduate Student

International PhD student - full time Scholarship: ~21,000 $ / year Tuition and fees: ~4,500 $ / year It means there's just 16,500 $ /...

Graduate Student

Despite working part/full-time since I was 15 throughout all of my time as a student, and living as frugally as possible, the meagre...

Graduate Student

McGill charge me extra sessions equivalent to around 5000$ a year, at my salary it means I am constantly in debt and crawling from month...

Graduate Student

My graduate student scholarships (17,500 at the master's level and 24,000 at the doctoral level) have always been sufficient to support...

Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars are the lifeforce of discovery and innovation, providing the critical ideas, talent, and labour necessary for the majority of post-secondary research conducted in Canada;
Much of the science and research in Canada is funded by the Tri-Council Funding Agencies — that is, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), and the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR).
Yet, the majority of these federally funded graduate and postdoctoral scholarships amount to less than minimum wage, forcing some of the brightest minds in Canada into poverty, or to seek better funded positions abroad

As the cost of living has steadily increased over time, the unchanged values of graduate student and postdoctoral scholarships and fellowships provide inadequate support for these researchers, who often have families, prior student loans and other financial responsibilities.