Nova Scotia's $25-Million Health-Care Data Plan at Saint Mary's Was Quietly Dropped

In 2023, the Nova Scotia government handed Saint Mary's University $25 million to build health-care data analytics and management programs, pitched as a way to revolutionize the province's health-care system. Less than three years after that high-profile announcement, the province quietly shut the initiative down, CBC reports. The contrast is the story: a launch staged as transformation, an ending staged as nothing at all. Anyone who followed the announcement — students, faculty, health administrators — is left to ask what the money bought and who decided the experiment was over.