The first one is called Enitiatives.ca (e-initiatives). It is a tool where anyone (with Internet access) can start, discuss and properly formulate a citizen initiative. Enitiatives.ca has voter data for federal and provincial/territorial levels. Local government data for B.C. should appear there soon. Volunteers are sought to take care of other provinces.

Just a few days ago a similar, somewhat simpler tool called MyVerdict has appeared. It is simpler than Enitiatives, but it can also provide a platform where issues can be debated with reasoned, coherent argument. Where all points of view can be aired and validated, independantly overseen results can be viewed live and ongoing, also giving voters the chance to change their vote. The results of all votes could be acted upon by tools such as Enitiatives. MyVerdict could produce a report detailing voting by Province or District/City/Town/etc. and by age and sex. Legislators in various jurisdictions could use these results to learn how their constituents wished them to act.

Recently CBC has started the Great Canadian Wish List which has some of the ingredients of the above tools. They just call the citizen initiatives the "wishes" - wishes for Canada's future. It is done in collaboration with the social network Facebook, and so one has to have an account in Facebook to be able to enter or support a GCWL. CBC would be able to do all this with their in-house technology, without the need to use the platform of the US-based Facebook. But in spite of that, it is a very useful experiment.

If you are on already on the Facebook, or are willing to register there (it is quite easy), I invite you to also check and hopefully support my wish to introduce Direct Democracy in Canada.
You are also invited to join the Facebook group Direct Participatory Democracy for Canada.

It would be nice if CBC created a permamnet institution where citizens could submit their ideas and initiatives. I think that CBC already has technology more suitable for this than Facebook, but they would probably need to get more funds to make it more secure adn serious. They could apply an approach similar to their past listener-rated music show or the recent Seven Wonders of Canada to deal with political questions that are important to citizens.

Listeners could nominate for dicussion the issues that are important or worry them most (by phone, online; any time). All would then be able to rate the importance to them of the issues already nominated (again by phone, online). The issues would be ordered according to the amount of support they get, and dealt in this order. Panels of experts
would discuss each issue for some time on the radio/TV. Then listeners could take a vote on the issue. The results of such votes would serve as the database of citizen positions that should be respected by politicians.