Bretton Loney

Bretton Loney is a novelist and non-fiction writer who has published two previous books that were nominated for Whistler Independent Book Awards: in 2018 for his first novel, The Last Hockey Player and in 2015 for a biography, Rebel With A Cause: The Doc Nikaido Story.

Loney was a reporter, columnist and editor for more than 20 years at the Chronicle-Herald and The Daily New in Halifax and The Telegram in St. John’s, Nfld. He is the winner of two Atlantic Journalism Awards and the former Editor of The Daily News and The Telegram. He also worked in communications for the Government of Nova Scotia for 16 years.