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A very blunt-talking former deputy prime minister of Canada appeared on MSNBC on Sunday morning and warned Donald Trump that his threats of tariffs will be met with equal force and more if he proceeds forward with them.

Speaking with host Ali Velshi, Chrystia Freeland, who is reportedly lining up a bid to become prime minister when federal elections roll around in the spring, aimed a considerable amount of her ire at billionaire Elon Musk who appears to have Trump's ear on every policy endeavor.

Freeland first made her point on how much the U.S. relies upon Canada as a trade partner.

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"If you didn't have Canadian electricity, the lights in your building right now might not be shining," she told the MSNBC host. "And Trump Tower, you know, that famous escalator, it might not be operating because you get electricity from Canada for New York."

"A lot of your oil comes from Canada so, when people are filling their tanks up with gas, they should say, 'Thank you, Canadian friends, for providing this.' And truly, at a time when consumers don't want to pay higher prices, at a time when the United States needs more energy rather than less, it is just self-defeating and self-mutilating to be talking about putting a tax on the energy you get from us."

Turning to Musk, she told Velshi, "You know, I think Americans are the ones who invented the term: 'The customer is always right.' Well, we are your biggest customer, so watch out. If you hit us, we will hit back and our retaliation, unlike these across-the-board tariffs is going to be surgically targeted."

"We're going to design it so we do the minimum harm to ourselves and have the maximum impact in the United States and we are going to target constituencies that have particular influence in the White House,"she elaborated. "So one of the things I am proposing is a 100% tariff on Teslas, and I am inviting all the countries in the world that would be affected by these tariffs to join us. I think that would get us some attention in the Oval Office."

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CBS host Margaret Brennan grilled Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) about whether he thought President Donald Trump was "winning" when he flattered Russian President Vladimir Putin, who she described as a "brutal dictator."

"Vladimir Putin, it sounds like you would agree, is an accused war criminal," Brennan told Crenshaw in a Sunday interview. "He is a dictator. There is a warrant out for his arrest, as you know."

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Switzerland will consider legalizing recreational cannabis use, after a parliamentary commission on Friday proposed a law that would allow regulated sale and access.

The draft proposal adopted by the lower house of parliament's health commission, with 14 votes in favour, nine against and two abstentions, called for adults to be "accorded a strictly regulated access to cannabis".

Brazil's President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday vowed "reciprocity" in response to a 25-percent levy on steel imports announced by US President Donald Trump.

"There is no doubt, there will be reciprocity" from Brazil -- the second-largest exporter of steel to the United States after Canada, Lula told Radio Clube do Para.

Paris is naming part of an avenue after Alexei Navalny, the late Russian opposition leader who died in an Arctic prison colony in murky circumstances, the city council has said.

The Avenue de Pologne in the wealthy 16th district of the capital will have one side -- with odd house numbers -- named "Alexei Navalny", city hall said after a Wednesday's vote.

A double-decker bus and a car crashed into a river when a bridge collapsed in northern Peru Friday, killing at least two people and injuring dozens, authorities said.

The bus was transporting more than 50 passengers when the 60-meter (197-foot) long bridge it was crossing near Chancay gave in "due to a structural failure," according to disaster management official Cecilia Martino.

Mexico's president on Friday warned U.S. gunmakers they could face fresh legal action and be deemed accomplices if Washington designates Mexican cartels as terrorist groups.

The Latin American nation, which is under mounting pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump to curb illegal drug smuggling, wants its neighbor to crack down on firearms trafficking in the other direction.

Axios reported Friday that in the month of November 2024, former President Joe Biden "arrested 21,000 unauthorized immigrants." Since taking over on Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump's office hasn't been able to reach those numbers "despite its crackdown."

The report cites Trump's hire, Tom Homan, calculating "about 14,000 immigrants" who were arrested in the "three-plus weeks" after the inauguration.

U.S. Vice-President JD Vance Friday urged Germany's mainstream political parties to drop resistance to cooperating with the far right, hours after Berlin rejected American "meddling" ahead of its election.

"Democracy rests on the sacred principle that the voice of the people matters," said Vance in a speech to the Munich Security Conference.