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Many of them are skittish; there are a few braver ones. For various reasons I needn't go into here, they get more used to me as the winter goes on; I talk to them to try to get them used to me being around. When the snow first falls, they'll scatter as soon as they see or hear me, but by now they mostly just stand back a bit. There's one particularly brave one this year that actually comes directly to me when I go outside! i.e. he actually comes from wherever in the yard he happens to be to within about 2 meters of me and waits for the [redacted].
Not sure about jackrabbits in Edmonton (though @Satori and @cenobyte might confirm), but they're generally most active for an hour or two either side of dusk. Unfortunately those tend to be fairly high-traffic times in cities, at least in the prairies, so they might all be hiding away from cars and people noises and movements. I'm at the end of a bay, so my front yard is very low-traffic. These jacks are out there on my front lawn and scattered up and down the street every evening.