Alberta's Opposition house leader says he regrets firing an employee after she told him she was being sexually harassed, and says his caucus is committed to ending abuse in the workplace.

The Alberta government plans to control the online sale of legalized marijuana but will leave over-the-counter sales to private operators.

Gender and vocabulary are clashing on the floor of the Alberta legislature as Premier Rachel Notley accuses one male opponent of mansplaining, and calls out another for "hepeating."

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is to go on tour later this month to stump for the Trans Mountain pipeline, but is resisting opposition calls to wield a big stick against its opponents.

Alberta is proposing new legislation to ensure students who join gay-straight alliances in school are not outed without their permission.

"It's another miracle on the Prairies," Jason Kenney told a cheering crowd after the result was announced. The former federal cabinet minister took 61.1 per cent of the vote.

Canada's health minister says pilot projects have begun on roadside police testing for marijuana, and the plan is to have rules in place for edible cannabis around July 2019.

Canada's health ministers are looking at ways of working together, including an electronic prescription database, to fight the growing crisis in opioid addictions.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says the federal government is being unfair in the way it assesses pipeline projects, but her government will not go to court for now to try to make it right.

"I just find it odd that every time the prime minister makes a decision where Canadians are upset by the result of that, that he somehow blames them," said Tory leader Andrew Scheer.