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Canadian here. In the province I grew up in vehicles yield to a pedestrian at a crossing (marked crosswalk or intersection).
Then I moved to Ontario for a co-op workterm. I was living with family and it was about a 30 minute walk to where I was working.
I was on my way home after my first day and crossing the street in a residential neighborhood when I stepped out in front of a lady who had stopped at a stop sign. I walked in front of the car and she beeped her horn. I thought we might be related since my cousins lived nearby so I looked at her and she was yelling at me in her car. I said "sorry" (I have no idea why) and as I turned to keep hustling she literally bumped me with her car before I could get out of the way (she had been creeping up). I was like wtf and just got out of there.
When I got home my cousin had a good laugh after I told him about this and he explained that pedestrians do not have the right of way (there are some towns and cities where they do, just not the one I was in).
I then proceeded to do lots of waiting at crosswalks.
I may have a guess for you.
Wait, I've never heard a situation where a pedestrian crossoing at an intersection with a stop sign down have right of way. Doesn't feel right
Took me by surprise. I was in my mid-late-20s and had lived in a number of places in and out of Canada at that point.