In Alberta drivers treat cross walks as a free hit zone- walking across they - Driver making a left or right turn across a cross walk zone- drivers have the habit of pulling right up to the cross walk trying to get the pedestrian to move faster. Downtown is horrible for that.
It's not just Alberta. I've seen it everywhere I've ever gone. The scariest was Fort St John... I hated trying to cross their main street when we lived there, we'd almost always have to peek around the car that stopped for us to wait for the rest of traffic to catch on.