OTTAWA, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Canada unexpectedly lost 24,800 jobs in January but the unemployment rate dipped to a 16-month low of 6.5% as fewer people looked for work, Statistics Canada indicated on Friday.

France and Canada have opened consulates in Greenland’s capital Nuuk on Friday, in a solid show of support for the semiautonomous arctic territory amid renewed demands from US President Donald Trump for the US to acquire it.

Canada and Finland had to wait to start their Olympic women's hockey journeys.

Canada is reevaluating its planned purchase of U.S. F-35 fighter jets over the escalating trade tensions between Washington and Ottawa in what has become a flash point in bilateral relations between the two allies.

By Amanda Stephenson CALGARY, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Professional engineer Luis Cabana couldn't take a walk in downtown Calgary in the mid-2000s without someone he knew calling out to him in Spanish. Office towers in the corporate heart of Canada's oil and gas sector were at the time heavily populated with Venezuelan expats who had fled persecution and economic stagnation in their home country.