Port Coquitlam Mayor Brad West expressed his disappointment over the lack of action by the B.C. government after the latest deadly rampage

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VICTORIA — One year after Premier David Eby declared he was “white-hot angry” about a trio of stabbings in Vancouver, he is promising an updated response to the city’s latest deadly rampage.

The premier was reacting to unprovoked attacks in downtown Vancouver that left one man dead, another maimed. The suspect has a history of mental illness, violent offences and more than 60 interactions with police.

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“When something like this happens, it shakes people’s confidence in a really profound way,” Eby conceded Wednesday. “We have a real need in this province to do more for people who are struggling with mental health, brain injury and chronic addiction. You are going to see announcements from us on more assertive care for people who are struggling in this way.”

Details to come next week, according to Eby, suggesting his latest plan is not quite ready for the election-campaign rollout.

Eby’s hesitation didn’t stop Port Coquitlam Mayor Brad West from again calling for a modern-day equivalent of the defunct Riverview Hospital to detain the toughest cases of mental illness and brain damage.

“Closing Riverview was a historically stupid decision,” West told Global TV, referring to the 2012 shuttering by a previous B.C. Liberal government. “There is a place for a modern-day Riverview. The alternative is what we are........

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