Josef Svoboda was dedicated to studying complex tundra ecosystems and monitoring the effects of climate change. In 2019 Prof. Svoboda was named an officer of the Order of Canada.Lewina Svoboda Had it not been for the wisdom of a fellow political prisoner who refused to approve his ordination as a Catholic priest, Josef Svoboda’s life might have taken a radically different course. It was 1957, and the cream of the Czechoslovak Catholic hierarchy had been locked up by the Stalinist regime in the notorious Leopoldov prison, a massive 17th-century Ottoman fortress in Slovakia. Josef Svoboda was serving time on trumped-up...