Construction on Bloor St. West will cause the Santa Claus parade to abandon its traditional starting point at Bloor and Christie this year. Instead, the parade will start at Parliament and Bloor, head west and then south on University. The date this year is Sunday, November 17 for the 115th annual parade. “(Bloor) is under construction now and just wouldn’t work for us to host all the thousands of families who line up on the side of the street,” CEO Peter Beresford told reporters at a press conference Tuesday. “So we’re going the other way from University.” The parade will then head east on Wellington Street before heading south on Yonge Street and then east on Front Street.
