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The women caged in this country’s jails are among the most vulnerable under the Canadian flag.

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Most are victims of abuse, poverty and violence. Most of the crimes they’ve committed are drug-related to feed their addictions.

Most have children. Most are non-violent. Most remain vulnerable even behind prison bars.

So in Canada of 2025, it stands to reason that the Correctional Service Canada thought it a stellar idea to consider housing a killer who butchered his wife and two children in a medium-security women’s prison.

CSC has yet to decide on Mohamad Al Ballouz’s accommodation but as he now identifies as a woman named Levana, well … that changes everything. Our Levana wants to be caged in the medium-security Joliette Institution for Women.

Who is Al Ballouz and why should he be in a women’s prison?

For starters, he’s a monster.

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