{
  "id": 8698926,
  "title": "The province gave SMU $25M to transform health care. Then it quietly killed the plan",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/20/the-province-gave-smu-25m-to-transform-health-care-then-it-quietly",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-20T09:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CBC Canada",
    "slug": "cbc-canada",
    "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/saint-mary-s-university-nova-scotia-government-action-for-health-9.7341869"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Nova Scotia government gave Saint Mary's University $25 million in 2023 to create health-care data analytics and management programs to revolutionize the province's health-care system. Less than three years after a high-profile announcement was made, the province quietly shut down the initiative.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}